In the 1980s London was governed by the Greater London Council (GLC) and it became a genuinely left-wing administration.   Sean Sheehan   Under Ken Livingstone, the capital’s radical credentials were cemented as it went about robustly resisted the free-market ideology of the ruling Conservative government. The GLC was successful […]

With the exception of the Acropolis in Athens, the most visited ancient Greek site is Delphi but there was another oracle that provides an equally fascinating glimpse into a culture that is other.   Sean Sheehan   An oracle, blessed with precognition, can prophesise and this ability to predict the […]

An anthropologist, with field work in Alaska behind her, moves across the Bering Strait to the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East. There she finds the animist impulse of which only traces had remained with indigenous Alaskans.   Sean Sheehan   She meets the reindeer-herding Even people who, under […]

D.H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” has never recovered from charges of primitivist male chauvinism, but a new edition of the novel presents an opportunity to rescue the book from too-harsh and too-simply delivered criticisms.   Sean Sheehan   Connie Chatterley —her Lady title derives from the class status of the […]

The Chilean author discovered in the Cuban intellectual’s writings a source of inspiration that shaped her thinking and her connection with the island. Poet Jaime Quezada revisits this relationship through a collection bringing together literary, journalistic and essayistic material gathered over years of research.   Fausto Triana   A virtual, […]