Linguistic paradoxes and the evasion of identity in ‘Moll Flanders’
Term report: wealth, good; population, v. good; equality, could do better
As the lamps come on, thoughts of a connoisseur of the crepuscular
Gaelic Ireland’s many encounters with continental European culture
Fashion model, rocker, poet, addict: the strange life of the singer Nico
A memoir of Patrick Kavanagh, the reflections of Thomas McCarthy
Vargas Llosa’s study of the overthrow of democracy and reform in Guatemala
Derek Mahon: a poetic style balanced between levity and profundity
Yeats’s authoritarianism: the Rapallo circle and Italian fascism
Sean Bourke and the springing from jail of Russian agent George Blake
Should ‘Ulysses’ be feted as a great novel, or a great something else?
The city centred: the importance of the culture of Dublin in ‘Ulysses’