One Robust Story?

One could quibble over omissions, but the individual chapters in The Cambridge History of American Poetry are without exception, superb introductions, overviews and surveys of…

Irish Literature

The Better Truth

Theo Dorgan’s new collection contains many moving elegies for lost friends but also some of the most moving and beautiful love poems written by any…

Irish Literature

The Lightning and the Thunder

A study marked by brilliant analyses of some remarkable works of poetry and fiction written by US authors in the first half of the twentieth…

World Literature

Measure-taking

Anne Carson’s work is marked by a sense of the strange and a belief in the value of difficult art in forcing us to test…

At Ease With Elsewhere

If Brian Moore’s work seemed “outsiderish” to the young Heaney in 1962, what must he have made of Hutchinson? He had been “outside” Ireland for…