The word ‘energy’ comes from the ancient Greek noun ‘ergon’, meaning work, and in English ‘work’ can be a noun or a verb; hence the words energy and energise.   Sean Sheehan   No surprise, then, to find more than one meaning in the title of Michael Marder’s book, “Energy […]

Vegetarians learned long ago how to curate a standard restaurant menu by stripping out most or all of the main dishes and focusing instead on starters, salads and side dishes.   Sean Sheehan   Depending on your location, non-meat dishes now go well beyond a boring vegetable lasagne or a […]

You can enjoy an Almodovar movie but wonder if you are doing so for the wrong reasons: they may leave you speculating more about colour coordination than camera angles, pondering over your flat’s shabby-chic interior instead of a character’s interiority.   Sean Sheehan   His new film, “Parallel mothers” (2021), […]

Citizenship is still regarded by some as a neutral marker that arrives with birth, an equally bestowed dispensation, an act of inclusion that can be taken for granted.   Sean Sheehan   Maybe, once up a time, it was like this for everyone; it still is for some people in […]