Jack London, standing: Public Domain portrait photograph By Jenny Farrell Jack London’s journey as a socialist and a writer is a story of dramatic ascent and tragic... Continue reading
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Book available here By Jenny Farrell Sean O’Casey’s only daughter and now sole surviving child, Shivaun, has given the worldwide O’Casey community a splendid memoir of her... Continue reading
The book is available here By Jenny Farrell Leila Majaj Kirkconnell’s Under the Same Sky is more than a novel; it is a monumental work of witness... Continue reading
Every One Still Here – Stories, by Liadán Ní Chuinn, Granta 2025, £14.99; The Stinging Fly, €12.00. By Jenny Farrell Liadán Ní Chuinn’s stunning short story collection... Continue reading
Our Culture is a new series from Culture Matters exploring the relationship between culture and capitalism through a Marxist and dialectical lens. The series investigates how capitalism... Continue reading
Northodox Press, 2025 By Jenny Farrell Literature often offers perspectives on history ignored by mainstream narratives. Crime writing, in particular, has long been used to explore working-class... Continue reading
By Jenny Farrell Fun fact: Guinness, the quintessential Irish drink, exported around the world, originated in the working-class pubs of early eighteenth-century London. Known as porter, this... Continue reading
By Jenny Farrell In 1962, Dmitri Shostakovich composed his 13th Symphony, basing it on five poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko that provide its textual and thematic basis. In... Continue reading
By Jenny Farrell Born on July 20, 1925, in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Frantz Omar Fanon grew up in a society that was formally part of France but in... Continue reading
Review by Jenny Farrell When Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp became the first Kannada work – and the first short story collection – to win the 2025 International... Continue reading
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