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 […]

The 1988 film, “They live”, tells the story of John Nada (read his name in Spanish) who finds a box full of sunglasses. Putting a pair on, he sees how ideology works by keeping the truth hidden.   Sean Sheehan   Visiting the Silk Roads exhibition at the British Museum […]

The Prix Pictet is an international award to photographers for their work in raising consciousness of important environmental and social issues. “Collage” is the title of the book bringing together some of the women photographers who have been nominated or shortlisted for the award since it began in 2008.   […]

Migrants move, leaving behind their familiar habitat and facing the task of finding a new one. For migrants, a new home can be a place of precarious safety, a habitat fraught with insecurity. This is what Alberto Gandolfo gives photographic form to in “Habitat”.   Sean Sheehan   Between 1900 […]