Americas

In September I convened a two-day conference at the University of Sheffield with the aim of exploring indigenous histories, cultures and languages. While there was particular focus on the Mexican indigenous language Nahuatl, we covered

Oxford dictionaries have just announced their 2016 word of the year: ‘Post-truth’. This is apt, given the ever expanding chorus of voices announcing the onset of the ‘post-truth age’. While we were hardly in an

The 2011 Correspondents' Dinner is thought to be the significant moment that spurred the reality TV star and real estate mogul Donald Trump to run for Presidency. That evening, Trump was the target of both President

It's a rare treat when reality television provides us with something other than a sense of dread having wasted an evening in front of the TV. However, the legal struggles of one group of reality

Technologically inferior, but at one with nature – JK Rowling’s ‘History of Magic in North America’ amounts to little more than a Eurocentric collection of reductive stereotypes that betrays the depth and diversity of indigenous

Following the negative response that greeted its cinema release, the movie Regression recently appeared on DVD to little fanfare. In the words of critics, the film inhabited a ‘purgatorial wasteland between cop thriller and Rosemary’s