Visual representations of race are shot through with racist attitudes and “Decolonising the camera” examines this through a series of case studies.   Sean Sheehan   In 1945, Life magazine – a large-format (36cm by 26cm) and hugely influential publication – produced six pages of photographs showing the horrors that […]

This book, “Letter to Bruno Manser”, is a memorial to Bruno Manser and it begins with a photograph of the mountain that marks his last known location, before he vanished in 2000,  and a letter: “Dear Bruno, if only you knew how many of your friends looked for you at […]

There are lessons to learn from the current pandemic and one of them – the need for radical thinking, authority and discipline – underlies Žižek’s recent articles in the public media. They have been substantially rewritten for “A left that dares to speak its name”.   Sean Sheehan   He […]

If you love Jane Austen and want to form your own club of like-minded devotees,  Janine Barchas is someone who has to receive an invitation. In “The lost books of Jane Austen” – oh that there were! – she tracks the history of the novels’ publications over the course of […]

As a narrative, “Animalia” is about the four generations of a farming family in southwest France, from 1898 to 1981, but this is only the novel’s bare skin. Underneath it is a horrifying tour de force about the business of farming, killing and eating animals.   Sean Sheehan   Given […]