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
Nothing on Earth – Conor O’Callaghan
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
Skulls and Sunflowers: Van Gogh in Paris
In February 1886, the thirty-three year old Vincent van Gogh arrived in Paris with nothing but a cheap suitcase and a… Read more Skulls and Sunflowers: Van Gogh in Paris
Into the Liquid Plain: Narcissus-Eve-Scarlett
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
SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – Mr Knockly (Lydia Davis)
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)
The Net Delusion – Evgeny Morozov
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
The Way Inn – Will Wiles
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
SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – Diary Of A Madman (Nikolai Gogol)
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)
SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – The Soul Is Not A Smithy (David Foster Wallace)
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)
SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – In The Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)
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)
