The back cover of Mahtab Hussain’s “You get me?” is a condensed anthology of headlines from some of Britain’s most awful newspapers.   Sean sheehan   This is just four of them:  “Muslim thugs aged Just 12 in knife attack on Brit schoolboy” (Daily Star, 2010), “Muslims tell us how […]

This is how Helga Paris, a photographer in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), came to take the photographs in “Women at work”.   Sean Sheehan   “Whenever I was at the shopping centre, I looked at people, watched them closely, imagined how they come home tired from work, before they […]

“Cursed bunny”, short stories by Korean author Bora Chung, will not surprise readers acquainted with the genre-bending delights of Korean cinema.   Sean Sheehan   The stories mix fairy-tale elements with the diabolic, the gothic and the grotesque, throwing into the mix cruelties of life under patriarchy and capitalist social […]

The floor plan leaflet for the Prado in Madrid includes thumbnail images and the gallery locations of nearly 40 paintings that are part of its collection.   Sean Sheehan   They have been selected because they are particularly acclaimed works of art and the information helps visitors who want to […]

Two books -“Crashed” (2018) and “The Passage to Europe” (2013)- by Adam Tooze and Luuk van Middelaar have been justly celebrated for their respective studies of the global economic crash of 2008 and the complexion of EU integration.   Sean Sheehan   Perry Anderson is fulsome in his praise of […]