Citizenship is still regarded by some as a neutral marker that arrives with birth, an equally bestowed dispensation, an act of inclusion that can be taken for granted.   Sean Sheehan   Maybe, once up a time, it was like this for everyone; it still is for some people in […]

Juning’s four children had to stay on the island Bantayan in the Philippines when the family employing her as a domestic servant first moved from Manila to Hong Kong.   Sean Sheehan   The family’s daughter, Caroline, was born there in 1976 and when the family moved to London Juning […]

Caesura (pronounced sez-ura) is a literary term, referring to a break between words in a line of poetry, and “The saving line” is a study of the ways Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno identify narrative caesuras in the work of other writers as signifying markers of interruptions.   Sean Sheehan […]

Two philosophical perspectives are at play in the novel “The book of form & emptiness”, informing Ruth Ozeki’s telling of a story about a young boy, Benny, whose father dies in a meaningless accident.   Sean Sheehan   Benny and his mother Annabelle are left to cope with their grief, […]