The Garden Cinema presents a selection of films from the last five decades that explore how Argentine society has grappled with the aftermath of the military coup of 1976. Abla Kandalaft That year, the country’s armed forces overthrew the democratically elected government and installed a dictatorship as part […]
Culture
A pattern in an unhinged world
There is an aching need to soberly model the contemporary political world and Anton Jäger in “Hyperpolitics” makes a convincing case for his decipherment of the mayhem, at least as it affects political culture in the US and Europe. Sean Sheehan For most of the twentieth century one […]
In Memory: Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
“Amazônia, sua linda” (Amazonia, you beauty) said Dom Phillips in his last social-media post at the end of May 2022. He and a fellow activist Bruno Pereira, on their way to the Javari Valley in northwest Brazil, were murdered six days later. Sean Sheehan Dom Phillips was researching […]
Stories of immigrant and undocumented women
On the street corners of Brooklyn, men and women from other countries wait for hours in the hope of finding a job. They’ll do anything. Up to and including putting up with the exploitative conditions that unscrupulous impresarios, knowing they don’t have ‘papers’, that they’re ‘illegal’, will subject them to. Division […]
The home: shelter and strife
What it means to have a home has been central to drama, poetry and the novel for millennia. It is explored with insight by Tom McCarthy in a scintillating piece of literary analysis called “The threshold and the ledger”. Sean Sheehan The home/house as both a place of […]
















