Jenny Farrell discusses Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy Margaret Atwood, who turns 80 in November 2019, has written several novels that explore dystopian situations or circumstances where people are... Continue reading
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Sean Ledwith shows how Finnegans Wake, far from being an incomprehensible waste of Joyce’s genius, is an anti-fascist masterwork, uniting and celebrating the wholeness, richness and vibrancy... Continue reading
David Betteridge re-tells an old tale, inspired by John Berger, Timothy Neat, and Margaret Bennett, with drawings by Bob Starrett The Cave of Gold by David Betteridge On... Continue reading
Phil Brett has just published Gone Underground, the second of his Pete Kalder novels. It’s a crime novel, set in a future revolutionary Britain, and here he explains... Continue reading
Poetic Justice by Moya Roddy Fuckin’ mad, Stacey thinks, eyeing the crowd milling outside the theatre. Imagine goin’ to hear poetry this hour of the morning. Across... Continue reading
Tony McKenna looks back at Stephen King’s IT Some years ago, a study was carried out into the fears of young children in the night. Just before the... Continue reading
Nicholas Tucker asks why authors of children’s stories about boarding schools chose to concentrate on escapist fantasy, rather than telling the truth Asked by a magazine in... Continue reading
As young people take to the streets to protest about climate change, Kim Reynolds discusses the way political activism by young people at the Battle of Cable... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell reviews Liam O’Flaherty’s re-issued novel,“Hollywood Cemetery” Published in London in 1935, but never re-issued until now, “Hollywood Cemetery” is one of five novels by O’Flaherty... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell introduces B. Traven, a writer who stood consistently and unreservedly on the side of the working class and the oppressed. Like Robert Tressell, his novels and... Continue reading
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