The greatest flaw of British post-war drama is arguably its unabating commitment to realism. While on the continent dramatists such as Samuel Beckett, Berthold Brecht, Eugene Ionesco or Jean Genet were breaking the boundaries of drama with radical new forms and theories, Britain was already unsettled by the likes of Osborne. Even as innovations such […]

In film theory, the discussions of what defines cinema classically revolve around the questions of either format or narrative. Is it film editing that makes cinema what it is, or the use of different focal lengths, the focus, or the frame? On the other hand, most viewers equate cinema with story-telling; so is the unique way that cinema can impart narrative the key to its identity?

When looking at the modernist canon, the innovators that tower above all others are inevitably James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. Virginia Woolf is grudgingly also granted a place, less for her innovation than for her femininely aestheticized version of the modernist novel. But, as Gertrude Stein furtively asked, “Who came first?” Why is it that most students at university today are unaware that Gertrude Stein published her Three Lives in 1909, that “Pointed Roofs”, the first chapter of Dorothy Richardson’s epic novel Pilgrimage, came out in 1915 and May Sinclair’s Mary Olivier was published in 1919? All incredibly innovative–and truly modernist–yet published long before Joyce’s Ulysses in 1922. Why are these works not on every syllabus, to be compared to the male modernist tradition? Why are they not even mentioned?

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the UN Security Council resolution 827 on 25 May 1993. Since its establishment, on hundred and sixty one people have been indicted for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, and yet of these only one hundred and thirty three have appeared before the tribunal to date and only forty-five have been found guilty. The question that arises is why only a minority of the perpetrators have been sentenced and how in some cases they are still able to evade arrest. After all, it has been over fifteen years since the wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Kosovo started.