Andrea Marcolongo is a writer possessed of a lively intellectual curiosity and her two most recent books have startlingly different subject matters while sharing a fervent attachment to the world of ancient Greece.   Sean Sheehan   “Shifting the moon from its orbit” arises from Marcolongo securing permission from the […]

The voice of Rafael Barrett’s is as needed now as it was in the aftermath of what at the time he rightly called “history’s most merciless war”.   Sean Sheehan   He was referring to the War of the Triple Alliance (1864-70) – resulting in the death of half the […]

The continent that is South America had been culturally alive for 14,000 years before Europeans arrived, from nomadic hunting and gathering groups to the multinational, quasi-imperialistic state of the Incas.   Sean Sheehan   Ancient cultures are never fully recoverable but where Homer left us two major texts to puzzle […]

The stresses and contradictions afflicting South Korea have been writing their own headlines recently with prosecutors minded to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3.   Sean Sheehan   Meanwhile, people go about their daily lives […]

The great Fredric Jameson died in September 2024 and it is shocking to realize that he will no longer be writing outstanding pieces of literary criticism.   Sean Sheehan    ”Inventions of a present”, various essays he wrote mostly for New Left Review and London Review of Books, is a […]