“We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not get excited about every little... Continue reading
Return to previous page
Category: Life Writing
Published by Penguin Books, 2025 By Jim Aitken ‘They can’t break or occupy my words’ – Mahmoud Darwish We Are Not Numbers by Ahmed Alnaouq and Pam... Continue reading
by Jim Aitken The Scots word ootlin refers to someone deemed a stranger, an outcast, a despised or neglected member of a family. It is an awful... Continue reading
Spy thrillers about and accounts of East-West spying during the cold war abound, always written from a particular Western political standpoint. Autobiographies relating the stories of former... Continue reading
The idea begins to take shape after the fortuitous discovery of the pale blue savings account book, wedged between two long-expired passports, and secured with an elastic... Continue reading
Writer-director Brett Gregory on his bleak, moving, semi-autobiographical feature film, ‘Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist’, which tackles austerity, class, and mental health. Images... Continue reading
I’d rather be a striker than a scab by Michael Jarvie It’s Wednesday, the 4th of January, and yet another day of the protracted RMT strike. When... Continue reading
Michael Jarvie reviews Stewart Lee’s show, Snowflake Tornado Stewart Lee is the undisputed master of anti-comedy, or, if you like, meta-comedy. Drawing on Bertolt Brecht’s theatrical technique, which in... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell reviews The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices, edited by Paul McVeigh Working-class writing is coming to the fore in Ireland. “The 32” follows... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell reviews Mick O’Reilly’s From Lucifer to Lazarus: A Life on the Left (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2019) At the end of From Lucifer to Lazarus, Mick O’Reilly raises a... Continue reading
Showing 1–10 of 18 posts