exploitation

Only Iain Sinclair could glimpse Hackney in the wilds of Peru

18 September 2021 9:00 am

It seemed like a preposterous proposition. For decades, Iain Sinclair has been an assiduous psychogeographer of London, an eldritch cartographer…

The ‘sex worker’ myth

19 August 2017 9:00 am

In the midst of all the outrage about modern-day slavery, usually vulnerable men forced into manual labour, there is actually…

‘Burlesque in New York mutated into vaudeville’s disreputable sister, filled with dirty comics and strippers in body stockings or less’

Drawing blood with pen and ink

23 January 2016 9:00 am

Molly Crabapple is an American artist and Drawing Blood is the story of her life. That life has only been…

What are the Chinese up to in Africa?

5 July 2014 9:00 am

Few subjects generate as much angst, or puzzlement, among Western policymakers in Africa as China’s presence on the continent. In…

Witnesses in the heart of darkness

29 March 2014 9:00 am

When presented with a 639-page doorstopper which includes 82 pages of closely-written sources, notes and index, most of us feel…