The rise of private monopolies in the wake of the Thatcher ‘revolution’
The long fight for recognition of the Magdalene laundries survivors
Time on our hands: the locked-down poet raids memories of past travel
Is a chapbook more likely to work as an organic whole than a full collection?
The carefree days before Belfast became the capital of the Troubles
A poem where language is put behind bars and called upon to account for itself
A book telling the story of a book that cannot be written – which is written
Six days in Hamburg – a ‘weekend break’ and family reunion with a difference
A moving meditation on a working class past from a London-Irish historian
The relentless self-questioning of Emmanuel Carrère’s nonfictions
Urban transformation and sectarian division in 18th century Ireland
The megalomania of the leader of Peru’s genocidal Maoist revolutionaries
The greatest songwriter in the Irish tradition in the history of recording
‘The Rooney Effect’: taking the affective temperature of the patriarchy
An unequal combat between a divided, shambolic Britain and a united Europe