Lia Mills

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2022

2018

  • World Literature

    Manderley, Again

    Daphne du Maurier’s classic story ‘Rebecca’ is more an anti-romantic than a romantic novel. It is also a study of jealousy, a portrait of the…

    May 4 Issue 100, May 2018

2015

  • World Literature

    World Without End

    Marilynne Robinson’s three Gilead novels amount to a masterclass in perspective and in the use of telling detail to construct character and story. Part of…

    May 9 Issue 67, May 2015
  • World Literature

    Pay Attention

    Ali Smith has written a daring and brilliantly successful novel about art and language, the making and understanding of art, and of life. It’s about…

    March 8 Issue 65, March 2015

2014

  • Irish Literature

    Hidden Irelands

    Celia de Fréine seems to have arrived on the literary scene late but fully formed: as though she waited until her voice was mature to…

    November 5 Issue 61, November 2014
  • World Literature

    About Time

    If the mystery could be taught, poetry would die, argues one contributor to a new study of creative writing teaching in Ireland. But what workshops…

    April 22 Issue 54, April 21st, 2014

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