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ESSAYS & REVIEWS
In Review: Maggie O’Farrell’s Land
Eleanor Davies reviews Maggie O'Farrell's latest release, Land.
Jun 86 min read
'Bearing News from the Land of the Dead'
Liam Gornall on the poetry of medieval Wales.
Apr 88 min read
From the Madman’s Chaos to Sacred Restoration
In May 2025, the Lord Mayor of Belfast unveiled a stained-glass window in City Hall depicting a young man in a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan “Save Sodomy from Ulster.”
Apr 34 min read
In Review: Dorothy Tse's 'City Like Water'
SHARON CHAU - Tse's dark absurdity becomes a form of resistance in a quietly vanishing city.
Feb 166 min read
In Review: Susan Howe's Penitential Cries
ADAM JUDAH KRASNOFF - A lifetime of reading yields strange ghosts.
Dec 4, 20257 min read
Empire’s Steel Skeleton: Dissecting the New V&A East Storehouse
AVIN HOURO - The question remains: has the colonial skeleton of the museum been shaken, or simply re-dressed?
Dec 4, 20257 min read
In Review: Alice Vincent's 'Hark'
LOTTIE WALKER - In Hark: How Women Listen, Alice Vincent tunes into the frequencies and silences of womanhood.
Sep 30, 20258 min read
In Review: Didion's 'Notes to John'
ROY SHINAR COHEN - A posthumous Joan Didion journal offers raw intimacy - along with guilt for reading what she never meant to publish.
Aug 15, 20257 min read
Discovery and Delight in Armenia and Georgia
NANEH V HOVHANNISYAN reviews a journalist’s culinary odyssey through the South Caucasus.
Aug 10, 20258 min read
The Seasons Start Inside You
MAX CALLIMANOPULOS – Michael Clune’s first novel 'Pan' translates adolescent panic into a hallucinatory study of thought and perception.
Jul 23, 20256 min read
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