The American No by Rupert Everett: Velvety camp and the poetry of the glitterballThe main problem with this short story collection is its form: much of the dialogue might work on screen but is lifeless on the pageSat Oct 12 2024 - 00:00
The Jesus Trilogy: Beautifully textured adaptation captures all the sadness and mystery of JM Coetzee’s novelsDublin Theatre Festival 2024: Annabelle Comyn’s evocative production, featuring Fergal McElherron and Elaine O’Dwyer, makes clever, convincing choicesFri Oct 11 2024 - 10:48
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan – A pulpy approach that provides facile answersJFK recruited teenage interns to have sex with and pass around to his friends. Why is he remembered as one of the best presidents in US history?Sat Sept 07 2024 - 04:00
The Silence in Between, Greta & Valdin, and Mongrel: New writers’ exciting thematic scopeReviews: Works shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize by Josie Ferguson, Rebecca K Reilly and Hanako FootmanWed Aug 14 2024 - 04:19
Short stories from Kafka to the Kafkaesque: making strange againTwo new books, Selected Stories and A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, make the case for reading the worst of Franz Kafka afreshFri Jun 28 2024 - 04:18
Private Rites by Julia Armfield: Atmospheric and deeply weird novel about a banal kind of apocalypseAmid mass suicides, famine and displaced populations, the characters still have to tap on and off the boats that have replaced public transportSat Jun 15 2024 - 00:00
