Issue 132, April 2021
In This Issue
Against the Clock
In his new collection, Greg Delanty makes another valuable contribution to the poetry of environmental consciousness.
Love Hurts
Megan Nolan’s debut novel, a refreshingly honest and often uncomfortable meditation on the relationship between desire, self-destruction and the female body
Freefall in the Suburbs
In Danielle McLaughlin’s first novel brief moments of high drama intermingle with journeys into the complex, foggy territory
In Defence of the Gàidhealtachd
Activists concerned to protect the oldest of all living Scottish languages have been wrongly accused of perpetrating a sort of nationalist essentialism.
They Heard the Call
A history of Ireland’s main Catholic seminary has a much wider focus than the merely institutional
Stalking Truth
Geraldine Mitchell’s four collections have in part sprung from insights gleaned from a lifetime of covert observation
In Rothko’s Rooms
Ekphrastic poems allow a poet to amplify and expand the meaning of the piece of art being viewed.
Dream Time
The pursuit of the common good, Pope Francis argues in a new book, needs societies to focus
The Anti-Freud
Dr Trotter challenged Freud, asserting that ‘all human psychology … must be the psychology of associated man, since man as a solitary animal is unknown to us’
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
It was once possible to regard the judge Sergio Moro as a zealous, perhaps overzealous, prosecutor of corruption.
Taming the Past
The terms ‘victim’ and ‘perpetrator’ are not mutually exclusive, in the present or in the past.
Voices from the Chorus
Given the historical amnesia that prevails, Katrina Goldstone’s account of the activity of Irish left-wing writers in the Thirties is something of a revelation.
The Europeans
Eurosceptics have been predicting the collapse of the EU for twenty years now, sure that the citizens would realise it was all an impossible dream
Webs and Networks
In popular imagination, the Arts and Crafts movement is indelibly linked to well-known figures like William Morris, John Ruskin and Edward Burne-Jones.
The Sly Masquerade
For quality of output, for growth and longevity, for the honesty and intensity of his narrative voices and for the relentless quest for forms that would make sense of his and his country’s experience,
Shit Buzz in Belgrade
Kevin Power’s new novel is both riotous rant and thoughtful coming-of-age tale. The punchy lyricism enables sympathy as well as laughter