Arts & Culture
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.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Friday, June 7, 2019 14:15 - 0 Comments
Film | An urgent, necessary homage: “Fanon: Yesterday, Today” by Hassane Mezine
“Fanon: Hier, Aujourd’hui,” a landmark documentary film by Hassane Mezine is a worthy homage and testament to Fanon's life and legacy, writes Rachida Lamri.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Thursday, October 25, 2018 17:48 - 0 Comments
Theatre | Review | The Shroud Maker: Lives and death in Palestine
In the Shroud Maker, Palestinian playwright Ahmed Masoud brings a welcome dose of gallows humour to the most tragic of canvasses, writes Christa Blackmon.
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.
