Culture

Book reviews Comments Culture In Focus

Just do it

James Kelman horrified the literary establishment when he won a major award for his fourth novel, “How late it was, how late” in 1994.   Sean Sheehan   A novel about an ex-con losing his sight as the result of a beating by the police and then coming up against […]

Book reviews Comments Culture In Focus

The other Germany

Spy movies evoke East Berlin as a sinister place from where people try to escape, a dystopian enclave with a dreaded security service, the Stasi.   Sean Sheehan   What tends to get forgotten is the German Democratic Republic (the GDR) the country born in 1949 and where close to […]