Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture, Exhibition, New in Ceasefire - Friday, October 6, 2017 17:51 - 0 Comments
Arts & Culture">Exhibition | Pop Art From North Africa (P21 Gallery) Arts & Culture
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 Film
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 Books
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.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Friday, September 8, 2017 12:00 - 1 Comment
Books">Review | “Tumblr Liberalism” vs The Serious Authentic Left: On Angela Nagle’s Kill All Normies Books
If the left is to have the same degree of success in translating online cultures into political movements, then it needs to understand both the online world and its own history. Kill All Normies helps with neither of those things, and is unlikely to win support beyond those already convinced of its central, conservative, thesis, writes Josh Davies.
Arts & Culture, Books, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, August 16, 2017 13:31 - 0 Comments
Literature">Where Epics Fail: On the enduring power, and beauty, of aphorisms Literature
"It falls to the epigram to remind us of our higher selves and larger allegiances to one another". American-Egyptian poet and author Yahia Lababidi introduces an exclusive selection from 'Where Epics Fail', his forthcoming collection of aphorisms.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, June 28, 2017 11:01 - 0 Comments
Film & TV">Zeus in Gaza: On the cognitive dissonance of watching Wonder Woman Film & TV
For many of us, the progressive pretensions of the new Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot, will strike a bitterly dissonant note in light of Gadot's own problematic positions on Palestine, writes Ali M Latifi.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Friday, April 7, 2017 21:22 - 1 Comment
Film ">‘Get Out’: A bone-chilling, discomfort-inducing, laughter-provoking artistic and political triumph Film
The surprise box office hit of the year, 'Get Out' is as an artistic and political tour-de-force that is as much informed by the Rachel Dolezal saga as it is by Black Lives Matter. Jennifer Izaakson reviews.
Books, New in Ceasefire - Monday, July 11, 2016 17:57 - 3 Comments
Books">Review | Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics Books
How was a committed socialist on the fringes of Westminster politics able to win one of the strongest leadership mandates in British political history? Tom Mills reviews Richard Seymour's new book, 'Corbyn: the strange rebirth of radical politics' and finds an astute analysis of the socio-political conditions which have given rise to Corbynism, its future prospects and the substantial obstacles it will inevitably face.
Arts & Culture, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, May 31, 2016 22:51 - 2 Comments
Film">Review | The Journey from Syria: “I wish we could have this life in our country” Film
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad reviews The Journey from Syria, Matthew Cassel's new documentary tracing the remarkable journey of a Syrian refugee from his home in Damascus across half of Europe, and finds "a human story about ordinary lives disrupted by extraordinary circumstances."
Arts & Culture, Cartoons, Film & TV, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, March 30, 2016 12:48 - 3 Comments
Film">Review | Batman v Superman: Dawn of Nihilism and Mansplaining Film
'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice', the hotly-anticipated on-screen reunion of DC's 'Big Three', is a dark vision of nihilism, hopelessness and mansplaining, argues Neal Curtis in his review.
