Mixed Media
Book, Film and Music Reviews
Time and Winds (Bes Vakit)
A beautiful contemplative immersion in the children’s sense of the immensity of time and events. Written and directed by Reha Erdem
Dancing, dying, crawling, crying
Stories of continuity and change in the Polynesian community of Tikopia by Julian Treadaway
In Defense of Lost Causes
Superstar philosopher Slavoj Zizek writes in defence of lost causes
Children of the Revolution
This is a book that highlights how people caught in between places are denied identity, perspective and intimacy.
El Baño del Papa (The Pope’s Toilet)
A film about the Pope’s toilet. Directed by Enrique Fernandez and Cesar Charlone
Maldito Tango
This collection of prowling, lunfardo slang-inflected songs concentrates on an imagined lowlife of Buenos Aires.
Virtual Leisure
The début album from the Israeli-born, London-based performance artist Anat Ben-David, is based on a grim paradox, leisure doesn’t exist – it’s virtual
The Hangman's Game
Karen King-Aribisala's debut novel, a dark and brooding meditation on the stories we tell and the effect they have on everyday life
Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood
Donna Dickensen’s fascinating overview of the complex world of medical ethics
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My life inside
A masterful piece of film-making that leaves the audience gasping at the injustice of a 99 year sentence for a Mexican 'illegal' migrant following the death of the child she was minding
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ON THE NI SITE
The Aid Link
Are we really helping the Third World?
Soundbites - Strike at Star Wars
Soundbites - Atiq Rahman
While Hurricane Gustav swirled through the front pages of our media, the hundreds of deaths caused by extreme winds in the last month around the Caribbean and in Asia rated barely a mention.
This toxic life
They’re in our homes and our workplace, in the air we breathe and in the food we eat. Wayne Ellwood argues that toxic chemicals are changing the nature of nature.
Things to do before I retire
Things to do before I retire… humble thoughts from the diary of GW Bush, as revealed by Stefan Simanowitz
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Breathless in Beijing
Sam Geall reports on broken promises at the Olympics.
The triumph of triviality
Our culture’s tolerance for seriousness has never been lower, argues John F Schumaker.
Kabul lives
A photographic tribute to a city that has plumbed the depths.
Edible Earth
In search of bright ideas, David Ransom begins by learning some very basic lessons about how to design a more sustainable, permanent culture.
The privatization of Patagonia
Rich foreign investors are buying up huge areas of Argentina’s southern wilderness. Tomás Bril Mascarenhas exposes the new conservation conquistadores.
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