Finding a writer worth reading can be like searching for a good movie on Netflix – they do exist but first you have to scroll through pages of dross, wasting time only to realise that most are rubbish. Not all book publishers are in the same bracket and Daunt Books […]

People need a sense of belonging to something bigger than themselves but there is also a contrary impulse to not belong, to remain outside the group, and this dichotomy is what intrigues Mary Jacobus in her new book “On belonging and not belonging”.   Sean Sheehan   The children of […]

The phenomenon of hallyu (Korean Wave) has made itself felt across television, music, fashion and technology – celebrated with vim in the 2022-2023 exhibition at the V&A in London – and, an essential dimension to the country’s cultural explosion, in the world of film.   Sean Sheehan   A scholarly […]

Former leaders of the Labour Party and Unite the Union, Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey, are allies who share a love of poetry.   Sean Sheehan   Their book presents a selection of poems and describe how they came across each one and the impact it had on their thoughts […]

Jacqueline Rose began “The plague” with the first UK pandemic lockdown (March 2020) and she finished it with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years later. Written, as she puts it, ‘in the heat and chill of its moment’, it is remarkably eloquent and reflective, distinguished by a precision of thought […]