Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
‘I Gave Them a Sword’
The Watergate affair and the cover-up that brought down Richard Nixon
Good Things
Reading the cookbook as an instance of self-expression and social display.
Doing the Continental
The European dream of perpetual peace
Following Henry Joy
The life and death of a martyr for revolutionary secular republicanism
Poetic Bears and Others
An anthology marked by warmth, bigness of heart and generosity of spirit
A Stay of Time
A tale of quest full of gritty realism, related in Sara Baume’s electric prose
Life in the Ghost Dog
A collection in which many poems are akin to well-worked short stories
Huguenot Voices
Diaries and memoirs of French Protestant refugees in Ireland
England and St George
The Brexit sensibility: between nostalgia and nationalism
Diversifying the Horizon
Complementing science with tribal strategies for human survival
Against the Grain
Poems marked by fierce imagination and enlivened by puckish wit
High Bred Yet Hybrid
A novelistic recreation of the life of the co-author of ‘The Irish RM’