When she was a photography student in New York, Gillian Laub was chatting with classmates when one of them pointed derisively to some people coming towards them: “Look at those vulgar women in their fancy fur coats”.   Sean Sheehan   Gillian nodded in agreement, noting the brightness of their […]

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is famous in the US but not well known outside North America. None of his paintings are displayed in a UK public collection and this makes compelling the current exhibition at The National Gallery. The exhibition’s book details his work and life.   Sean Sheehan   Homer […]

Reading Źiźek can feel like a journey into a galaxy of ideas but a pictorially more exact image is that of visiting a solar system with a multitude of thoughts orbiting a radical understanding of existence.   Sean Sheehan   Reality, it is insisted, lacks any substantial coherence and this […]

The blurb on the book’s back cover –“Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime”– might be stretching the attention span of most readers but it fairly hits the mark when claiming this history of the Soviet Union is not a book easily forgotten.   Sean Sheehan   The main […]