Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Friday, October 23, 2026
There is a type of conifer, the Trojan horse fir, growing on a mountain in the part of western Turkey that meets the Aegean Sea. Sean Sheehan It grows above the plain where the city of Troy stood until, as Homer recounts in the “Iliad”, it was finally […]
Everyone will have seen the image of a defiant Trump, his ear and cheek blood-spattered, being rushed off stage by Secret Service agents at an open-air campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Sean Sheehan At the time of the attempted assassination, July 2024, Trump was a former president of the […]
These films primarily focus on immigration politics, migrant labour, indigenous organizing, and extractive economies in the U.S. and Central America. Abla Kandalaft / Mydylarama* The UCLA Film Archive just announced that 7 activist documentaries that are now freely available to access and stream for students, academics, and others. […]
Rejections beset the British novelist Barbara Pym but reading two of her later novels confirms a talent that was not appreciated at the time. Sean Sheehan Pym wrote six novels in the 1950s and early ‘60s until her publisher unexpectedly rejected her seventh and she consequentially disappeared from […]
A welcomed new series from Penguin Books, “The Mermaid collection”, resurrects works of mid-to-late twentieth-century literature, written by women and which, over time, have become unfairly neglected. Sean Sheehan The first four novels in this series are a treat. “Lucy Carmichael”, by Margaret Kennedy, sparkles with wit and […]
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