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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, […]

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Photographing limbo

The word limbo, signifying a state of waiting and uncertainty, used to be the name of a theologically-based location.   Sean Sheehan   It was a place, neither Heaven nor Hell, an in-between spot in God’s landscape that had a geographical exactitude: existing on the border of Hell – the […]