DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
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(B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire by Nadine El-Enany
Rigorous exposé of the role of British law in perpetuating and obscuring colonial divisions
JAN WOOLF is bowled over by a major retrospective for the YBA artist
LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
KATHRYN JOHNSON recommends the work of Norman Kaplan that was a tool in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon
NADINE EL-ENANY’S argument in (B)ordering Britain is very simple. “Britain” is a storehouse of the stolen wealth of a global empire, to which the so-called native inhabitants have no exclusive right.
Thus its immigration laws constitute an act of ongoing colonial violence and irregularised “illegal” immigration is an act of anti-colonial resistance.
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