Jenny Farrell discusses ‘Wuthering Heights’, and its subtle, skilful imagining of a more humane, classless society, where unequal gender difference is replaced by an equality of personhood.... Continue reading
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John Ellison offers an appreciation of ‘News from Nowhere’, by William Morris. Opening salvo There can be no denying that the content of News from Nowhere, the... Continue reading
Phil Brett tells the story of when Dashiell Hammett faced Senator Joseph McCarthy. ... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell marks Tomás Mac Síomóin’s birthday on 19 February with an essay on this subversive, internationalist writer, who translated the Communist Manifesto into Irish, satirises contemporary neoliberal... Continue reading
The Profit Motive – Part One by Owain Holland I speak to you from a secret Government facility named ‘Arthur’s Grave’ on Lundy Island. My name is... Continue reading
On his 350th anniversary, Jenny Farrell outlines how Jonathan Swift’s books expressed and strengthened Ireland’s cultural struggle against English colonialism. Jonathan Swift was born 350 years ago,... Continue reading
John Ellison sketches out the life of Maxim Gorky, the righteous, relentless witness of the revolution who evoked the wretchedness and terror of living under Tsarist violence.... Continue reading
Julia Mickenberg discusses some recently published radical children’s literature. As Philip Nel and I suggested in “Radical Children’s Literature Now!“, the contemporary field of radical children’s literature... Continue reading
Tony McKenna argues that the historical necessity embedded in the story and characters of Game of Thrones means that there is only one way it can end. Winter... Continue reading
Following her appearance on the In Our Time radio programme discussing Orwell’s Animal Farm, Professor Mary Vincent reflects on its powerfully written but fundamentally untruthful and simplistic... Continue reading
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