This was a difficult book to read, but not because it was badly written. It is a difficult book to write about, but not because there is nothing to say. It is a beautifully wrought, painfully acute, moving, thoughtful and challenging book.

Angus Boulton speaks with Debbie Lisle about his photographic work in Berlin, exploring Soviet legacies and the Cold War.

Wendy Brown's project in her recent book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty is to reveal paradoxical features of contemporary wall-building. As one of the few theoretical accounts of this phenomenon so far, the book delivers an original and open-ended speculative thesis of barrier building, both at borders and within sovereign nation-states.

I want to question the domino analysis of the Arab events, firstly by highlighting a number of critical, even subversive uses of the domino, notably by political cartoonists, then by recontextualising the 2011 events within different geohistories of protest including those of transnational uprisings and repression.

Cold War geographies birthed and nursed their own intricate conundra. So how was the dichotomous spatial complexity of that time and place – especially place – organized into existence?