Susie Linfield’s The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence has been released in paperback, and will soon appear in Turkish and Italian. She directs the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University, where she teaches journalism.
At last we exhaled…; who brought down the Berlin Wall?; Mike Davis on Susie Linfield on Fred Halliday; Linfield’s reply
On socialism or the Middle East, Fred Halliday’s intellectual flexibility was one of his greatest strengths.
Peppered with moving, thought-provoking elements, the photographic exhibition "Archive Fever" is fascinating but essentially incoherent.
It's true--and a cliché--that Hollywood films hold up a mirror to American society. It's equally true--and equally a cliché--that Hollywood films fail to reflect American society.


