Nazism tends to be mostly written about and situated in the context of World War II and the Holocaust.   Sean Sheehan   What tends to be underplayed is the extensive network of concentration camps within Germany itself and eastern Europe that relied on slave labour and the application of […]

Zahi Zalloua gives the radical thought of the anti-colonist theorist Frantz Fanon the justice it demands and deserves by allying it with psychoanalytic and philosophical ideas from the work of Slavoj Źiźek.   Sean Sheehan   In a racialized world, some humans count and some others, those that do not […]

The subject of this book is a security facility situated between Bethlehem and Jerusalem and known as Checkpoint 300. It is in the West Bank, the largest of the two Palestinian territories – the other being Gaza – and has been under Israeli occupation since 1967.   Sean Sheehan   […]

Dramatising on stage a novel by Barbara Pym seems an obvious idea now that it has been so successfully achieved at London’s Arcola theatre.   Sean Sheehan   The production comes to an end on June 20, so it needs to be seen this week to enjoy Pym’s deeply affecting […]