Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Light and Shade
A new collection of critical essays from the Co Wexford novelist Colm Tóibín
The Good Fight
American foreign correspondents at large in an age of optimism
When Beauty Lands
The giddy promise and remarkable elegance of tennis genius Roger Federer
Artistic Differences
The Fab Two: Lennon and McCarney working with and against each other
Getting There
Blueprints for the path to a successful referendum and a united Ireland
The Casement Diaries
While trying not to overburden readers with detail, it is important to counter unevidenced assertions and to correct errors in Martin Mansergh’s review of Paul Hyde’s book Casement: Decoding False History (http://192.168.1.49/drbdup0601/articles/blackening-casement/). Hyde has published an earlier book entitled Anatomy of a Lie, offering a number of other theories on the supposed forging of…
Beyond Chatter
Making sense: the ‘antiphilosophical’ philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Love in the Dark
A love-across-the-divide story from the North – with a difference
A Wading Light
Seán Hewitt’s memoir of queer love, helplessness and heartbreak
Poetry and Fishing
Retracing the journeys of the enthusiastic angler Ted Hughes
Spreading Civilisation
Lecky, liberalism and Britain’s role as world leader
Otters and Orioles
A well-read eye observes nature over the passing years