Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
Witness to Revival
Mary Colum’s memoir of Ireland, literary revival and modernism
Beyond A Joke
A Tale Told by an Idiot: Jordan Peterson’s daring fictional gambit
The Authentic Voice
An examination of Italian cinematic neorealism and its artistic antecedents
See Here
The great photographers caught through the lens of a playful semantics
Comings and Goings
The ‘isolated and outlandish’ domain of the doomed Big House gentry
Guinness and Chips
A diary of English high society that is high on snobbery but low on insight
Who’s for a U-turn?
Why unionists might be better off thinking, and doing, the unthinkable
The Inflection Point
Literacy in religious thinking may be necessary to tackle the world crisis
Rights and Wrongs
Hannah Arendt: witness and theorist of the advent of modern totalitarianism
Brief Lives
Lafcadio Hearn’s encounter with transience and crossing borders
A Righteous Flame
A gift for evoking simple things: light, heat, water, air; food and drink
Design and Build
Scenes of fleeting beauty captured in overlooked and unglamorous contexts