Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, June 19, 2020 8:43 - 0 Comments
Books | The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity by Darryl Li
If the global War on Terror has taught us anything, it is that it is very easy to write badly about Muslims, particularly in the context of conflict. Darryl Li's ‘The Universal Enemy’ stands as a salutary antidote to so much that passes for scholarship on the subject, writes Asim Qureshi in his review.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 16:19 - 1 Comment
Culture | Tiger King, COVID-19, and the Nature of Work
In its lurid depictions of strange kinds of jobs – idealised and precarious and dangerous – Tiger King perfectly echoes our Lockdown anxieties about the nature and politics of work, write Mareile Pfannebecker and James A. Smith.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, December 5, 2019 15:31 - 0 Comments
Books | A resonant poetry of survival: Shareefa Energy’s Galaxy Walk
The poems in 'Galaxy Walk', Shareefa Energy’s debut collection, come together to form a picture of a woman whose writing has offered her a way to live in a traumatic and complicated world, writes Rachel Seoighe in her review.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, November 20, 2019 16:36 - 0 Comments
Film | ‘Official Secrets’: Can one woman stop a war? Should she have to?
By focusing on personalities at the cost of structural issues, 'Official Secrets' ignores too much of the ideological and structural paradigms behind the Iraq War, writes Georgie Carr.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, November 15, 2019 11:25 - 0 Comments
Books | Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba
'Palestine +100', a landmark collection of science fiction short stories, offers a fresh and compelling portraits of the Palestinian experience, writes Asim Qureshi.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, November 5, 2019 9:43 - 0 Comments
Film | “Don’t bother being nice”: ‘Joker’ and the Art of Misogyny
Since its release last month Todd Phillips's 'Joker' has garnered both commercial and critical success as a study in alienation and mental illness. Beneath the artfulness, however, is something really horrible, writes Neal Curtis.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, October 31, 2019 18:17 - 0 Comments
Books | Here to Stay, Here to Fight: On the history, and legacy, of ‘Race Today’
From 1974 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the Race Today Collective, was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Leila Hassan, Robin Bunce and Paul Field, co-editors of a new anthology bringing together some of the Collective's key texts and contributors, offer an overview of Race Today's 15-year history.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, October 26, 2019 13:31 - 0 Comments
Arts & Culture | Exibition | Coldharbour: Beneath the skin of Brixton
Stefan Simanowitz visits the Coldharbour exhibition — featuring photography, oral history recordings, music and poetry — which launched in Brixton this week as part of Black History Month.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10:03 - 0 Comments
Books | Review | ‘Protest: Stories of Resistance’
The 'Protest: Stories of Resistance' anthology demonstrates, through vital and timeless narratives, the enduring power of resistance, writes Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya in her review.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, July 25, 2019 16:17 - 0 Comments
Film & TV | Review | ‘When they See Us’ by Ava DuVernay
'When They See Us', Ava DuVernay's four-part dramatised chronicling of the story of the Exonerated Five, is gut-wrenching but compelling viewing, writes Asim Qureshi.
