Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Sunday, August 26, 2018 12:59 - 0 Comments
Theatre | Review | Translations (National Theatre)
The recent National Theatre production of Brian Friel's 'Translations' is a remarkable take on the central — and perennially relevant — questions of place, belonging and dislocation, argues Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya in her review.
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, Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Monday, February 5, 2018 20:34 - 0 Comments
Comment | The tone-deafness of privilege: Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl
Justin Timberlake's Super Bowl performance last night was a bitter reminder of the American cultural establishment's shameful mistreatment of an iconic black female artist, and his complicity in it, writes Ali M. Latifi.
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, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, October 25, 2017 15:18 - 0 Comments
Television | ‘My Week As a Muslim’: A well-meaning, patronising caricature
There is nothing more patronising than watching a brown-faced, caricatured version of yourself repeating your own experiences back to you, writes Samayya Afzal in her review of My Week As a Muslim.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Monday, October 9, 2017 17:17 - 1 Comment
Theatre | Review | ‘Searingly humane, compelling theatre’: My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Young Vic)
The new production of 'My Name is Rachel Corrie' offers not only compelling theatre but a searingly humane portrait of an extraordinary life, writes Hicham Yezza.
Arts & Culture, Exhibition, New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 6, 2017 17:51 - 0 Comments
Arts & Culture | Exhibition | Pop Art From North Africa (P21 Gallery)
Rachida Lamri reviews the ‘Pop Art From North Africa’ exhibition, currently running at the P21 gallery in London. Walking among the engagingly parodic displays feels like a stroll into the psyches not of individual artists but of collective identities and narratives, she writes.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, September 30, 2017 11:04 - 0 Comments
Film | Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle
Sophia Akram reviews Paul Sng's new documentary, 'Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle', which examines the creeping drive for gentrification in the UK under the guise of regeneration.
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.
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