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Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, August 7, 2018 0:00 - 0 Comments
Books | Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson
Doug Murphy’s Nincompoopopolis is a suitably and rewardingly vicious, neat précis of the political and architectural legacies of Johnson in his time in power in London, argues Alex Baker.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, November 26, 2017 0:00 - 0 Comments
Books | Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert, by Hamja Ahsan
Shy Radicals by Hamja Ahsan is a quietly hilarious demolition of late capitalism’s invasion of our senses, time and privacy, writes Rachel Seoighe in her review.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, November 12, 2017 10:47 - 0 Comments
Books | An Anthem of a Revolution That Was — A Revolution That Will Be: ‘The City Always Wins’ by Omar Robert Hamilton
Omar Robert Hamilton's debut novel is a beautifully crafted examination of the Egyptian revolution and its aftermath, writes Ahmed Masoud.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 15, 2017 18:17 - 0 Comments
Books | ‘Mr Dickens and his Carol’: The Ghosts of Dickens, and Grenfell
Asim Qureshi reviews Samantha Silva's new novel, 'Mr Dickens and his Carol', and wonders how Dickens would have felt were he to see Grenfell's mass grave of the impoverished and downtrodden, standing as an edifice to our indifference.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 8, 2017 12:00 - 1 Comment
Books | Review | “Tumblr Liberalism” vs The Serious Authentic Left: On Angela Nagle’s Kill All Normies
If the left is to have the same degree of success in translating online cultures into political movements, then it needs to understand both the online world and its own history. Kill All Normies helps with neither of those things, and is unlikely to win support beyond those already convinced of its central, conservative, thesis, writes Josh Davies.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, August 16, 2017 13:31 - 0 Comments
Literature | Where Epics Fail: On the enduring power, and beauty, of aphorisms
"It falls to the epigram to remind us of our higher selves and larger allegiances to one another". American-Egyptian poet and author Yahia Lababidi introduces an exclusive selection from 'Where Epics Fail', his forthcoming collection of aphorisms.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Monday, July 11, 2016 17:57 - 3 Comments
Books | Review | Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics
How was a committed socialist on the fringes of Westminster politics able to win one of the strongest leadership mandates in British political history? Tom Mills reviews Richard Seymour's new book, 'Corbyn: the strange rebirth of radical politics' and finds an astute analysis of the socio-political conditions which have given rise to Corbynism, its future prospects and the substantial obstacles it will inevitably face.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, March 1, 2016 8:27 - 1 Comment
Books | Review | ‘Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War’
Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami's new book is a timely and searing account of Syria's recent history and the people who shaped it, argues Wassim Al-Adel.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, July 28, 2015 11:48 - 5 Comments
Books | Review | Settled Wanderers: The Poetry of a Landless People
Social Anthropologist Dr Alice Wilson reviews Settled Wanderers: the poetry of Western Sahara, by Sam Berkson and Mohamed Sulaiman, a recent volume of poems written from within or about the liberation movement from Western Sahara.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, March 27, 2015 0:00 - 3 Comments
Books | Review | Unmaking Merlin: Anarchist Tendencies in English Literature (Zero Books)
While recent years have seen a renewed interest in anarchistic thought and theory, it is refreshing and exciting to see a new volume bringing an explicitly anarchist lens to bear on English literature, argues Tom Malleson in his review of 'Unmaking Merlin: Anarchist Tendencies in English Literature' by Elliot Murphy.
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