Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Barefoot Kings?
Sifting the evidence on civilisation in Gaelic Ulster
Boss Cupid
The warm, human despatches of a gay poet from Reagan’s America
A Vanished Bohemia
A compelling memoir of Aidan Higgins and a mode of literary life now gone
Haunted Houses
Elizabeth Bowen’s love letters recall her first extramarital affair
Can history save us?
The need for global preparedness before the next pandemic arrives
Beyond the Ordinary
Can a woman living an ordinary life be a Renaissance Man?
Ulster Will Fight
Inter-communal violence in the early years of Northern Ireland
Reds under the Bed
How the secret police bedded in communism in postwar Central Europe
Apple Concentrate
Weirdness, greatness and everything in between: New Yorkers talk the talk
From Ronald to Donald
US Republican Party strategy and the irresistible populist temptation
Poor White Trash
How liberals in the US treated Bill Clinton’s accuser Paula Jones
Before the Deluge
A classic account of the life of a working class Parisian street