“Red Valkyries” is a very engaging and informative account of five remarkable women from the time when Eastern Europe was part of the Soviet Union.   Sean Sheehan   Readers may know about some of them, if only by name, but probably not all five, making this book a valuable […]

Whatever your motivation for foreign travel, reliable guidance is useful and there are countless websites that will use up valuable hours of your time only to deliver a litany of pre-packaged and market-oriented drivel fed by advertisements and links that take you mindlessly over the same ground.   Sean Sheehan […]

The idea that race is not built into the logic of capitalism is rubbished in Raoul Peck’s documentary “Exterminate all the beasts” and Cedric Robinson was making the same point in 1983 when his book “Black Marxism: the making of the black radical tradition” first appeared. The Prisma’s Memoirs. June […]

When she was a photography student in New York, Gillian Laub was chatting with classmates when one of them pointed derisively to some people coming towards them: “Look at those vulgar women in their fancy fur coats”.   Sean Sheehan   Gillian nodded in agreement, noting the brightness of their […]

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is famous in the US but not well known outside North America. None of his paintings are displayed in a UK public collection and this makes compelling the current exhibition at The National Gallery. The exhibition’s book details his work and life.   Sean Sheehan   Homer […]