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 […]

A revolution can be taken to mean a change in the economic power structure of a society but, as Donald Sassoon points out in “Revolutions”, this hardly applies to the American War of Independence.   Sean Sheehan   It does, however, serve to describe the spirit and the substance of […]

Heidegger, despite his troubling allegiance to Nazism, is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century and a new translation of his classic text makes it more approachable than before for readers without a knowledge of German.   Sean Sheehan   It has been said that reading Heidegger, […]