Books
Book reviews (non-fiction literature about media, public, big tech and film).
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GAZA: Peter Oborne traces how successive UK governments and much of the British media responded to the war in Gaza, and finds a political…
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EUROPE: Oliver Moody's new book makes an ambitious case for the Baltic as a source of ideas for the whole of Europe.
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PALESTINE: A New York Times memo on banned words becomes the starting point for an argument that language, more than any weapon, has determined…
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POLITICS: From Occupy to Gaza solidarity, waves of mobilisation have filled streets and screens without forcing structural change. What happens when politics becomes expression…
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POWER: If the West is guilty, does that make its rivals emancipatory? Moving from Iran and Venezuela to Palestine, Ukraine, Cuba, and China, the…
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CLIMATE: A provocative look at who pays for warming, from migrants in extreme heat to communities in disaster zones, and why billionaire lifestyles matter.
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GAZA: A Haaretz columnist’s blistering case against permanent war.
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GAZA: Refaat Alareer’s life under siege in Gaza, his viral poem If I Must Die, and a case for words as resistance when the…
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JOURNALISM: A savage novel punctures war correspondent hero myths, exposing careerism, entitlement, and the fixer who does the real work.