Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
How much is enough?
Is a chapbook more likely to work as an organic whole than a full collection?
In That Dawn
The carefree days before Belfast became the capital of the Troubles
Vibrating Still
A poem where language is put behind bars and called upon to account for itself
Skydiving
A poetic auto-fiction on migration, trauma and shifting identities
Losing the Plot
A book telling the story of a book that cannot be written – which is written
City Breakdown
Six days in Hamburg – a ‘weekend break’ and family reunion with a difference
Urban Shock
A moving meditation on a working class past from a London-Irish historian
Mindful Fictions
The relentless self-questioning of Emmanuel Carrère’s nonfictions
Going Georgian
Urban transformation and sectarian division in 18th century Ireland
The Pathfinder
The megalomania of the leader of Peru’s genocidal Maoist revolutionaries
Restless Angel
The greatest songwriter in the Irish tradition in the history of recording
Normal Girls
‘The Rooney Effect’: taking the affective temperature of the patriarchy