It was the writer J.G. Ballard who said earth was the truly alien planet and when he wasn’t writing novels and short stories to that effect his non-fiction for various publications rarely contradicted such a point of view.   Sean Sheehan   The range of his short non-fiction work, from […]

A genetic approach to a work of literature looks at what was written before the final, published version of the work: notebooks, drafts, correspondence and whatever else might offer clues to how a writer reached the final stage of their work.   Sean Sheehan   This level of research is […]

Nearly all of our world has been mapped by Google and although that includes North Korea this still leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to the most steadfastly secretive country on Earth.   Sean Sheehan   What we think we know about the place seems to be […]

The gap between ethics and politics has never seemed to yawn wider. The response of the laughingly called “international community” to Gaza has exposed truths and the need for a politics of Truth.   Sean Sheehan   Such a need confronted Lenin when the leading socialist party in Germany transformed […]