Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Rights and Wrongs
Hannah Arendt: witness and theorist of the advent of modern totalitarianism
Brief Lives
Lafcadio Hearn’s encounter with transience and crossing borders
A Righteous Flame
A gift for evoking simple things: light, heat, water, air; food and drink
Design and Build
Scenes of fleeting beauty captured in overlooked and unglamorous contexts
Boarding School Odyssey
Poems of youth recollected. informed by humour yet speaking of heartbreak
Blending In
Israel’s ‘first family’ reimagined in a hilariously conceived campus comedy
On the High Wire
John Berryman: a university poet in a society not much interested in poetry
At Bates Motel
Grief, addiction, abuse, self-harm, motherhood, breakdown, hilarity
Gimme Shelter
The schemes and stratagems that help the rich stay rich
Hard Power
Thucydides and the pursuit of domination through warfare
Walking the Wild Side
Wintering out in Mayo’s lonely glens and boglands
Witness to War
Peadar O’Donnell walks into Franco’s military revolt