Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Terry Eagleton is a literary critic you can trust. He has read everything, his judgements are invariably sound and his humour is the icing on the cake. Sean Sheehan The subject matter of “The real thing” is fiction, mostly novels that come broadly under the umbrella of literary […]
Milan, the capital of European fashion, is the city where Daniele Tamagni was born in 1975. “Style is life”, a celebration of his off-the-catwalk fashion photograpohy, is dazzlingly eye-catching. Sean Sheehan In Kami, a tungsten mining village in the mountains Bolivia, Tamagni saw grinding poverty up close when […]
Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is difficult to pin down because multiple avenues of interpretation are embodied in the drama. The idea of there being one warranted meaning has to give way to a plurality of convincing but not always compatible readings. Sean Sheehan The play is a detective story, a […]
“The State and revolution” was written by Lenin in 1917, after events in February had overthrown the Tsar but before October when Bolsheviks took power. Sean Sheehan It was an intensely political interregnum and dangerous too: Lenin had become a wanted man, with a reward of 200,000 roubles […]
The Nakba, the dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians by Israelis in 1948, in the words of Mohammed El-Kurd “breathes down our necks, invading our national identity and contorting our earliest encounters with our sense of self”. Sean Sheehan He writes this in the foreword to the 2024 edition […]
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