I am so at home in Dublin, more than any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. It took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

Issue 143, April 2022

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