Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Late Blossoming
A moving poetic exploration of impermanence and mortality
The Attic Tarantino
The innovator Euripides puts the heedless Greek gods on the stage
Eat Up
The right stuff: how to eat your way into a superior social class
The Rebound
Germany’s rapid bounceback from the destruction of 1945’s ‘Zero Hour’
Bearing the Burden
Historians’ role in excusing the brutalities of empire-building
The Story from Below
The Irish working class’s long search for its voice to be heard in literature
People Like Us
Progressivism’s dirty secret: the left intellectuals abolish the poor
A Learning Curve
A German writer learns the cost of making a god of the nation
Educating Margaret
How Margaret Thatcher was persuaded to sign the Anglo-Irish Agreement
Intimate Oscillations
A poet’s odyssey ‑ from Dublin suburbs out into the world and back
Pagans, Snobs, Censors
Irish visual art and the vaunted uniqueness of our ‘spiritual heritage’
Intellectual Insurrection
The extraordinary range and tireless radical commitment of Edward Said