Edita Liessner’s “Short stories on a long theme” is a pleasurable photobook to open and the pleasing playfulness of its title adds to its attractiveness.   Sean Sheehan   Her photos are of two very different kinds: geometric, colourful arrangements and scenes of everyday life. It is not immediately obvious […]

Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, two black police detectives, have a tough shift on the streets of Harlem in New York.   Sean Sheehan   Their task is to try and administer justice in a place and a time when the odds are stacked against them. They give […]

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 […]