Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
A Diplomatic Odyssey
The ‘soft power’ of promoting the literary heritage of Ireland abroad
The Gift
Howard Jacobson on what he got from his Mancunian Jewish upbringing
A Tonic for Our Times
Margaret Atwood’s astute, sparkling takes on social and literary matters
‘I Gave Them a Sword’
The Watergate affair and the cover-up that brought down Richard Nixon
Good Things
Reading the cookbook as an instance of self-expression and social display.
Doing the Continental
The European dream of perpetual peace
Following Henry Joy
The life and death of a martyr for revolutionary secular republicanism
Poetic Bears and Others
An anthology marked by warmth, bigness of heart and generosity of spirit
A Stay of Time
A tale of quest full of gritty realism, related in Sara Baume’s electric prose
Life in the Ghost Dog
A collection in which many poems are akin to well-worked short stories
Huguenot Voices
Diaries and memoirs of French Protestant refugees in Ireland
England and St George
The Brexit sensibility: between nostalgia and nationalism