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, […]

A new study by Florencia San Martin looks at the work of Alfredo Jaar and the political valency of his visual, mostly installation, art.   Sean Sheehan   Jaar’s work challenges political indifference with images and gestures that solicit more than passive spectatorship. Five years after moving to New York […]

When it comes to fiction, it seemed China Miéville had gone into retirement – “The book of elsewhere”, two years ago, hardly counts – but now “The Rouse” has been published and the long wait has been worth it.   Sean Sheehan   Coming in at nearly 1300 pages, this […]