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.
Europe East and West, by Norman Davies, Jonathan Cape, 352 pp, £20.00, ISBN: 978-0224069243
In 1994, in Vrhpolje in western Slovenia, some twenty-five kilometres from the...
Brian Lynch’s subtle first novel, The Winner of Sorrow, is based on the life of William Cowper, a hugely acclaimed poet in late eighteenth century England whose work has gone into neglect in the last hundred years.
The War for Muslim Minds, by Gilles Kepel, Harvard University Press, £10.95, ISBN: 067401992X
In February 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt, returning from the Yalta conference...
Crusoe’s Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent, by Tom Paulin, Faber, 360 pp, £20, ISBN: 0571221157
While bare biographical facts offer no guaranteed entry into the...