Ethical and Independent Journalism… Journalism for immigrants
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
If you love Jane Austen and want to form your own club of like-minded devotees, Janine Barchas is someone who has to receive an invitation. In “The lost books of Jane Austen” – oh that there were! – she tracks the history of the novels’ publications over the course of […]
As a narrative, “Animalia” is about the four generations of a farming family in southwest France, from 1898 to 1981, but this is only the novel’s bare skin. Underneath it is a horrifying tour de force about the business of farming, killing and eating animals. Sean Sheehan Given […]
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 caused a severe economic crisis on the Caribbean island that many thought would be impossible to overcome. But they did it. Aspects such as how they did it, how they lived and why are set out in a book that must be […]
The deep-rooted appeal of the Jack Reacher novels is no big secret and, if you believe Amazon’s page about their author, Lee Child, every nine seconds another one of them is sold. Sean Sheehan Reacher embodies vengeance with a social conscience. In the early novels Reacher succeeds through […]
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 […]
.jpg)
