Books

Bringing the Bacchae to the bush

Chula finds a cultural confidence in Malawi that is lacking in the contemporary West

The technocratic face of authoritarianism

The dilemma of democracy continues to frame our predicament today

Plenty of atmosphere –– but only one ha-ha

If you want spice without obscurity, or the 1990s unfiltered, why not read something written back then?

Anatomy of a medical scandal

How not thinking can infect a workplace, community or entire culture

The country that went to the wall

From its birth after 1945, to its death after 1990

The anatomy of oikophobia

A cyclical view of history exposes Western self-contempt

Deconstructing a giant of the screen

For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker

The rich and varied past of our islands

Romans, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Norwegians all made their marks

Wrestling with recovery

There is no binary between sickness and health

Back door diplomacy

A fine history of Operation Chiffon