Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
In Search of Psyche
Waiting for the beautiful and fragile signs of summer to flutter by
Peeing in the Pool
The territory from the Jordan to the sea is already a single binational state.
A Solo Dancer
A poetic memory key, a USB to retrieve a long and well-lived life
A Season in Spain
John Banville’s new novel set on the shores of the Bay of Biscay
Radical Dissenter
William Drennan, radical Protestant and backer of Catholic Emancipation
A Voracious Reader
Peering into Stalin’s soul from the scribbles in the margins of his books
One Weird Guy
Peter Thiel and the tech giants’ pursuit of political power
The Bouncing Czech
The outrageous life and strange death of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell
Let the Music Speak
Traditional fiddler Martin Hayes’s journey to musical self-expression
This Is Who He Is
The West has no reason whatever to be surprised by Putin’s invasion
In the Dirt Lay Justice
Derry’s Bloody Sunday and the long fight for justice and accountability
The Mystery of Moll
Linguistic paradoxes and the evasion of identity in ‘Moll Flanders’