Book Reviews

Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Monday, April 22, 2013 15:17 - 6 Comments

Books | Review | Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa by Maximilian Forte

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In his Ceasefire review, Dan Glazebrook examines Maximilian Forte's withering indictment of liberal humanitarianism and its collusion in imperialist designs on Africa, as seen in NATO's Libya campaign of 2011.

Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, April 3, 2013 11:40 - 2 Comments

Books | Review | ‘Unhitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchens’ by Richard Seymour

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Elliot Murphy reviews Richard Seymour's "enjoyable and relentless attack" on Christopher Hitchens,one of the most influential and controversial polemicists of the past three decades.

Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Friday, March 8, 2013 0:00 - 0 Comments

Books | Review | On The Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin

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In 2012, Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed in Syria. Reviewing a new collected volume of Colvin's journalism, Heather McRobie asks what lessons we might draw from her life.

Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, February 3, 2013 0:00 - 0 Comments

Books | ‘The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes’ by Jonathan Rose

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As the marketisation of universities accelerates, maintaining forms of education which value the pursuit of knowledge as an end in itself has become a crucial and necessary challenge. Elliot Murphy revisits a classic study by Jonathan Rose that explores the pre-war culture of self-education amongst the British working classes.

Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Monday, January 21, 2013 0:00 - 1 Comment

Books | Review | Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture

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Musab Younis reviews 'Cruel Britannia' by Ian Cobain, the shocking recent exposé of Britain's use of torture from the Second World War onwards.

Arts & Culture, Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Monday, January 7, 2013 21:50 - 0 Comments

Books | Review: The Lives of Things by José Saramago

Mark Sabine reviews 'The Lives of Things', a surreal short story collection from the late Portuguese novelist José Saramago.

Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, November 8, 2012 6:27 - 1 Comment

Books | Review | The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan

Pakistani women march during a rally on violence against women in Lahore on November 29, 2010. (Photo: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

Media representations of Pakistan often portray it as a backward country fuelled by religious extremism. But, as Saadia Toor shows in her insightful new book, reviewed for Ceasefire by Shozab Raza, the complex history of the Left in Pakistan offers a much more compelling explanation for the country's current predicament - and gives some clues with regard to its future.

Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, October 27, 2012 0:00 - 2 Comments

Books | Review – After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine

Hilary Aked reviews a landmark new essay collection exploring the arguments for, and obstacles against, a one-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, September 15, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments

Books | Review: The Spanish Holocaust – Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

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Heather McRobie reviews Paul Preston's impressive study of the Spanish civil war and the systemic campaign of extermination by General Franco that claimed hundreds of thousands of innocent lives.

Book Reviews, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, June 10, 2012 12:03 - 1 Comment

Books | Review: ‘Why Marx Was Right’ by Terry Eagleton

Hrannar Baldvinsson reviews "Why Marx Was Right", Terry Eagleton's bold and boisterous defence of one of the most revered, maligned and misunderstood figures of modern intellectual and political thought.