Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
What Larks
Bridget Rose Dugdale, an English debutante on Irish active service
Marching on Rome
Fascism’s origins in violence and repression of the labouring poor
Blackening Casement
British intelligence and the making of the ‘black diaries’ of Roger Casement
The Past is a Place
Stories from the North about trying to stay ahead of the past
History or Herstory?
A dazzlingly adventurous fusion of fiction and memoir from Belfast
Death Attracts Us
A compassionate portrayal of the professionals of the dying trade
Mad About Poetry
Translating the poem, and the reader into the world of the poem
Homo Oblivious
Words and stories to defend the truth against Russian lies and propaganda
Strength, not Power
Combating oppression and injustice with clarity rather than anger
Larkin at 100
The elusive depth that lies behind the all-too-explicit ordinariness
Pass the Parcel
Ways in which knowledge was disseminated in early modern Europe
Göring’s Man
The postwar networks of the Nazi art plunderers and their facilitators