Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Death from the Centre Out
The destruction of Dublin: a history of short-termism and political muddle
Cancelling Mailer
Norman Mailer meets the ‘fierce ladies’ and irretrievably loses the plot
The End of an Order
The end of containment, the expansion of NATO and the new threat
German Lessons
Enda O’Doherty writes: Up to his death at the age of ninety-three in 2013, Marcel Reich-Ranicki had long been the most influential literary critic in Germany and the German-speaking lands (Sprachraum). Through his contributions to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) and later Der Spiegel, Reich-Ranicki provided his readers with authoritative judgments on what, in German…
Poems from the Lake
The compassionate vision and literary mastery of Eleanor Hooker
Cosmic Loneliness
Fictional therapy for the ‘climate grief’ of the ecotrauma epidemic
The Stendhal of Norfolk
New poetry volumes from Annemarie Ní Churreáin and George Szirtes
In Search of Psyche
Waiting for the beautiful and fragile signs of summer to flutter by
Peeing in the Pool
The territory from the Jordan to the sea is already a single binational state.
A Solo Dancer
A poetic memory key, a USB to retrieve a long and well-lived life
A Season in Spain
John Banville’s new novel set on the shores of the Bay of Biscay
Radical Dissenter
William Drennan, radical Protestant and backer of Catholic Emancipation