Here is a link to my piece on Flann O’Brien’s great novel The Third Policeman over at Headstuff: https://www.headstuff.org/literature/flann-obriens-the-third-policeman-turns-50/… Read more Bicycles & Blues: Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman at 50
Two years ago, when I moved back to my hometown of Dublin, I managed to secure an interview for the… Read more That Awkward Moment
Since the rapacious early years of this century, certain strains of the Irish landscape – namely, those weird, amorphous zones… Read more Nothing on Earth – Conor O’Callaghan
Though it generally deserves its reputation for aggressive difficulty, there are moments in Paradise Lost when the valiant reader, having… Read more Into the Liquid Plain: Narcissus-Eve-Scarlett
So enigmatic, so elliptical, so implacably strange are the stories of Lydia Davis, the reader is tempted to avoid reckoning… Read more SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – Mr Knockly (Lydia Davis)
If you count yourself among the small, serene faction of dreamers, data-poets, tech-millionaires and -billionaires and policymakers who still think… Read more The Net Delusion – Evgeny Morozov
What Gogol was to Russia in the nineteenth century, what Mallarmé was to France in the twentieth, and what David… Read more The Way Inn – Will Wiles
Diaries, like dreams, are better suited to life than to art. As a rule both are confused, inconclusive, and aggressively… Read more SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – Diary Of A Madman (Nikolai Gogol)
David Foster Wallace, who already appears to have secured himself a spot in America’s wing of the Western Canon, was… Read more SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – The Soul Is Not A Smithy (David Foster Wallace)
Of all the totemic figures in modernist literature, Kafka is the easiest to read and the hardest to write about.… Read more SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – In The Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)
