Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
Anders Behring Breivik had no legitimate grievance | Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin
In a Comment is Free post in the Guardian Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin explore the rhetoric being generated since Anders Behring Breivik’s Norway massacre which seeks to explain the violence of the attacks as a result of the “corrosion of Europe by [...]
The following is an extract from the book The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age, by Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin, which was published by Zed Books on July 10th. The preface was written by the Guardian and The Nation journalist Gary Younge and is available on The Nation website. There is also [...]
Book Review: New Finnish Grammar, Diego Marani (Dedalus Books)
A man is found battered and close to death on the quayside in Trieste during World War II. His identity is unknown and the man himself has completely lost his memory. Who he is and why he was so violently attacked remains unknown. Is he Sampo Karjalainen, [...]
Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People (Verso, 2010) Paperback £9.99 stg.
Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People, an academically minded historical work that nonetheless spent nineteen weeks on the bestseller list in Israel, is a book that is much more incendiary than it ought to be. Sand’s basic thesis – that [...]
Eoin Ó Broin’s Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism (Pluto Books) looked like a timely book when it came out a few weeks ago. Events since have only emphasised the relevance of its argument.
The book opens with a trenchant defence of Sinn Féin against allegations that is an authoritarian, quasi-fascist movement. Ó Broin acknowledges [...]
