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
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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
A review by Jenny Farrell Michael Crummey’s The Adversary has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, a prestigious prize nominated by libraries and readers worldwide for the... Continue reading
The Panorama Museum, Frankenhausen Photo by Martin Zeise, CC BY-SA 3.0 Following initial uprisings in southern Germany, the German Peasants’ War quickly spread and reached Thuringia, where... Continue reading
GDR/East German banknote featuring Thomas Müntzer All but unknown in the Western narrative, the radical German theologian, preacher, and revolutionary Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489–1525) became one of... Continue reading
by Jenny Farrell 500 years ago, on the 15 May 1525, one of the final battles of the German Peasants’ War (1524–1525) broke out. The War was... Continue reading
by Jenny Farrell Heinrich Mann, the elder brother of Thomas Mann, and in his own right one of the most significant German writers of the 20th century,... Continue reading
Michael Longley, one of Ireland’s most esteemed poets, died at the age of 85, on 22 January 2025. He leaves behind a remarkable legacy spanning over half... Continue reading
by Jenny Farrell The Irish language is often relegated to the past—a relic of rural idylls or historical dramas. Kneecap, directed by Rich Peppiatt, smashes this notion... Continue reading
In her latest, fourth novel, Intermezzo, Sally Rooney continues her exploration of intimate relationships, albeit with a shift away from the clear political critique that characterised her... Continue reading
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