Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Virtue Unrewarded
Jonathan Franzen’s America is a place of insecurity and confusion.
Sweating the Asset
The rise of private monopolies in the wake of the Thatcher ‘revolution’
The Road to Justice
The long fight for recognition of the Magdalene laundries survivors
Longing for Flight
Time on our hands: the locked-down poet raids memories of past travel
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