30 January, 2012

Bill Coyle

A Difficult Poet

Geoffrey Hill's Clavics is densely allusive and occasionally brilliant, but gets lost in its own complexities.


Ursula Hackett

The Power of Invisibility

Suzanne Mettler's The Submerged State explores the hidden side of governmental intervention.


Tom West

You Are What You Read

Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot revels in the meeting points between life and art.


Serena Stein

Scenes from Mafalala: Into a Mozambican Suburb

Serena Stein, in this photo essay, studies the changes Mafalala in Mozambique is undergoing.


Nicolas Stone Villani

The Law of Boundaries

Annabel S. Brett's Changes of State analyses the legal paradoxes surrounding the historical definition of statehood.


16 January, 2012

Aaron R. Hanlon

An Enormous Will at Work

John Nery's Revolutionary Spirit assesses the legacy of José Rizal's struggles for independence.


Peter Hill

The Drama of Arab History

Margaret Litvin's Hamlet's Arab Journey examines the staging of Hamlet in the Middle East.


Alex Niven

Gazza Agonistes

Ian Hamilton's Gazza Agonistes explores the cultural significance of a great English footballer.


Liz Fouksman

An Environmentalism of the Poor

Liz Fouksman describes the effects of civil society in the village of Beliqo in Northern Kenya.


Reinier van Straten

A Conspiracy of Texts

Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery negotiates the complexities of European anti-Semitism.