Books

Books, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, November 2, 2011 12:53 - 3 Comments

Books | The politics of being: ‘Who Are We?’ by Gary Younge

In his new book on identity, Gary Younge takes a fresh look at race, class, sexuality, language and more, through a sweeping series of anecdotes and vignettes that move from Brooklyn and Barbados to Ireland, Sudan and London. Musab Younis reviews.

Books, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, July 17, 2011 0:00 - 3 Comments

Books ‘Chavs’ by Owen Jones

Ceasefire's Matthew Butcher reviews Owen Jones' "Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class".

Books, Middle East Chronicles, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:00 - 0 Comments

Books ‘The Golden Cage’ by Shirin Ebadi

Ceasefire's Frederick Andrews reviews The Golden Cage, an intriguing semi-fictional collation of personal memories, encounters and stories by the Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi.

Books, New in Ceasefire, Photo Essays - Wednesday, June 22, 2011 14:57 - 0 Comments

Books Mapping a metropolis

Andrew Fleming reviews Mapping London, the new book by Simon Foxell, which examines the ways the British capital has been transcribed, mapped and understood over the centuries, from the mid-sixteenth century Shoreditch surrounded by windmills to the 1951 attempt to delineate the architecture of the South Bank.

Books, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, June 21, 2011 0:00 - 1 Comment

Books How to aim your gun

In his new book, 'Third World Protest', Rahul Rao attempts to ground the sterile world of international normative theory in the practices and discourses of subaltern protest groups. Ceasefire's deputy editor, Musab Younis, reviews Rao's arguments.

Books, Devil's Advocate, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:51 - 0 Comments

Books Natural Experiments of History

Can you run experiments on the past? A groundbreaking book seems to suggest the answer might be yes. 'National Experiments of History", co-authored by celebrated thinker Jared Diamond, attempts to propose a radical new way of studying history and other social sciences. Ceasefire's Omer Ali gives his verdict.

Books, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, April 27, 2011 0:00 - 2 Comments

Books ‘On Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan’

Jamal J. Elias spent almost a decade travelling up and down the clogged arteries of Pakistan’s road network studying the unlikely but fascinating subject of Pakistani truck art and culture. ‘On Wings of Diesel’, the resulting book, is reviewed by Layli Uddin.

Books, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, February 3, 2011 0:01 - 3 Comments

Books The last chance salon: why Ilan Pappe left Israel

Ilan Pappe, one of Israel's most prominent historians, started out as a leftist Zionist until, faced with the full reality of the facts he had uncovered about the Nakbah, he turned to anti-Zionism. Ceasefire contributor Asa Winstanley reviews his autobiography, 'Out of the frame'.

Books, New in Ceasefire, Science - Sunday, October 17, 2010 22:18 - 5 Comments

Book Review True Enough: Learning to live in a post-fact society

Is the mainstream media biased? Do you find its bias to be always against your own opinions and views? Is this a coincidence? In this Month's science column. Sebastian Meznaric takes a look at a recent book, 'True enough' by Farhad Majoo, that aims to uncover how humans interpret and detect bias in the information they receive, with surprising results.

Books - Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:15 - 6 Comments

Books | Žižek – The most dangerous thinker in the west?

Love him or loathe him, Slavoj Žižek is a cultural phenomenon. He seems to inspire unconditional adulation amongst his legions of followers and, predictably, equally unbridled derision amongst his many detractors. Some see him as a serious and original thinker, others as an overrated fraudulent showman. So who's right? Alex Baker tries to find clues in the pages of Zizek's latest offering 'Living in the end times'.