Juning’s four children had to stay on the island Bantayan in the Philippines when the family employing her as a domestic servant first moved from Manila to Hong Kong. Sean Sheehan The family’s daughter, Caroline, was born there in 1976 and when the family moved to London Juning […]
Book reviews
Breaking the narrative
Caesura (pronounced sez-ura) is a literary term, referring to a break between words in a line of poetry, and “The saving line” is a study of the ways Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno identify narrative caesuras in the work of other writers as signifying markers of interruptions. Sean Sheehan […]
Vibrant matters
Two philosophical perspectives are at play in the novel “The book of form & emptiness”, informing Ruth Ozeki’s telling of a story about a young boy, Benny, whose father dies in a meaningless accident. Sean Sheehan Benny and his mother Annabelle are left to cope with their grief, […]
Julian Assange: the human cost of empire
You don’t have to like professional tennis to know that dictatorships like China silence those who speak out of turn and you don’t need a Ph.D. in political science to know that some “democracies” have their own way of pursuing a similar objective. Sean Sheehan The UK has […]
Breathing scared
Raging against the injustices and fractures that have come to define the USA is a sane response to the state of that country and the roots of this awareness were laid down in the 1960s by people like the poet Allen Ginsberg. Sean Sheehan “The fall of America […]