Summer is the best time for identifying the trees and flowers making their presence felt around you and there are two new and outstanding guides to help make the task easier. When despair threatens to engulf the spirit, the beauty and value of the natural world becomes more precious than […]

In “The Castle”, Richard Mosse deploys hi-tech thermographic cameras of the kind associated with stealth surveillance by the military. He uses the technology to record moments of life in refugee camps and border crossings along the migration routes into Europe from neighbouring continents.   Sean Sheehan   The site for […]

The first insurrection against the British Empire in the twentieth century, the Easter Rising, took place in Ireland in 1916 – when the Empire controlled nearly a quarter of the world’s population.   Sean Sheehan   Nationalist and anticolonial resistance spread widely in the aftermath of World War I, especially […]

This is the title of the first novel by Juan José Andrés Cuervo, a Spanish journalist from The Prisma, who decided to immerse himself in history, first through academia and then through literature. In this book, he imagines a society where the ideas of cooperation, solidarity, and mutual aid have […]

The words that mainstream book reviewers reach for when describing “Capitalism and its critics: A battle of ideas in the modern world” are ones like ‘magisterial’, ‘sweeping’ or ‘expansive’. Apart from suggesting a big book, there is the sense of an authoritative overview of its subject matter.   Sean Sheehan […]