Image: CCA 3.0 By Wayne Dean-Richards “Maybe the Mona Lisa on a good day. Forget the rest.” White-haired and blue-suited, James Wheatley wasn’t noted for his... 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
Image by Alan McGuire By Maria Trbojevic Close your eyes now, child of Palestine. Tonight whilst you sleep beneath the fingers of tracer fire that crisscross the... 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
Forced displacement of Gaza Strip residents, CCA 4.0 By Alan PriceMilitary dog = MD Stray Dog = SD MD: Hey, you, what are you doing?SD: I’m looking... Continue reading
By John O’Donoghue Alan Morrison is the author of twelve poetry collections, and founding editor of The Recusant and Militant Thistles webzines. His thirteenth book, The Alderbank... Continue reading
By Razia Parveen In examining the powerful narratives of Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and the anthology We Are Not Numbers, edited by Ahmed Alnouq and Pam... Continue reading
Review by Sam Commotion Ghost Driver, the first novel from Nell Osborne, exists in a kind of extended feverish nightmare space. Parts of the novel can certainly... 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
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