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Author Archives → Oliver Eagleton

Israeli Score-Settling?

posted in Essays & Reviews on March 31, 2018 by Oliver Eagleton

By kidnapping the Lebanese Prime Minister and blackmailing the Palestinian President, Saudi Arabia has exposed its alliance with Israel – an alliance that Oliver Eagleton claims may reignite conflict in the region.

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Discarded Realities

posted in Essays & Reviews on December 14, 2017 by Oliver Eagleton

On the centenary of the October Revolution, two writers try to capture its frenzied atmosphere. Notions of truth turn out to be as slippery for them as they were for the revolutionaries.

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