Teju Cole's first book-length meditation on photography explores how his dream-like, jetlagged images are connected by tangents to the universal in all human cultures.
Gavin Corbett Criticism 12th September 2017
Olivia Sudjic's debut novel recognises online life as an active and creative culture. Like personal writing, its emotional highs and ominous shortcomings are tied up in an all-consuming act of self-fashioning.
Roisin Kiberd Criticism 23rd August 2017
We are in the midst of a raging culture war defined by cruelty, extremism and intolerance. Angela Nagle's new book is a timely and insightful report from the internet battlefield.
China Miéville’s portrayal of the Bolsheviks' rise to power is a captivating and inspirational description of the revolutionary moment, when everything is possible.
William Wall Criticism 13th July 2017
Graham Allen & Alvy Carragher take differing routes towards truth and beauty in two recent collections.
Eleanor Hooker Blog Post Criticism 17th May 2017
William Wall introduces Dave Lordan’s new essay collection, The Word in Flames
William Wall Blog Post Criticism 30th November 2016
Sarah Ladipo Manyika's Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a work operating within the memento mori tradition of death being ever present—and closer, closer still.
Wendy Erskine Blog Post Criticism 7th November 2016
Deborah Levy's seventh novel is an investigation into the threads of relationship and the primitive, enduring connections between body and mind.
Gabrielle Barnby Blog Post Criticism 4th November 2016
Mia Gallagher explores the ‘still, beautiful, profound’ autofiction of Rachel Cusk's 'Transit'.
Mia Gallagher Criticism 3rd November 2016
Doireann Ní Ghríofa gets inside the head of Eimear McBride's second novel.
Doireann Ní Ghríofa Criticism 1st November 2016
Mike McCormack's 'Solar Bones' finds beauty and joy in the interplay of the routine and the extraordinary; of quotidian and mystic.
Alan McMonagle Criticism 29th September 2016
Sara Baume Criticism Issue 28, Volume 2: Summer 2014
Lucy Caldwell Criticism Issue 34, Volume 2: Summer 2016
Ailbhe Darcy Criticism Issue 34, Volume 2: Summer 2016
Paul Perry Criticism Issue 34, Volume 2: Summer 2016
Paula McGrath Criticism Issue 32, Volume 2: Winter 2015
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Alan Jude Moore Criticism Issue 32, Volume 2: Winter 2015
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Kevin Breathnach Criticism Issue 29, Volume 2: Winter 2014
Mia Gallagher Criticism Issue 30, Volume 2: Spring 2015
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Lily Ní Dhomhnaill Criticism Issue 29, Volume 2: Winter 2014
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