Album Review: Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit
Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit For a while it seemed we all wanted our indie stars to follow Arcade Fire’s design, all
Album Review: Jonathan Kreisberg Trio – New For Now
Jonathan Kreisberg Trio New For Now A distinctive technique and flair is needed to bring the guitar front and centre in jazz. Kreisberg brings it home in spades
Book Review: Satin Island – Tom McCarthy
Satin Island Tom McCarthy This reviewer has been a fan of Tom McCarthy’s work since Remainder, a weird and deeply intelligent book about obsession and authenticity. Satin Island
Book Review: The Vegetarian – Han Kang
The Vegetarian Han Kang In The Vegetarian Han Kang ruthlessly targets South Korea’s social codes, using the story of a simple, personal rebellion to expose a callous patriarchy.
Book Review: Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange – Trans. Malcolm C. Lyons
Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange Trans. Malcolm C. Lyons Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange is the first English translation of 18
Book Review: An Unnecessary Woman – Rabih Alameddine
An Unnecessary Woman Rabih Alameddine Early in An Unnecessary Woman, protagonist Aaliya Saleh excoriates contemporary writers for making her ‘feel inadequate because life isn’t as clear and
Book Review: Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay Internet Feminism exists in motion, in instant response to cultural ills, and for that reason is extremely difficult to condense into a book.
Book Review: Dead Man Talking – Roddy Doyle
Dead Man Talking Roddy Doyle Roddy Doyle has a history of involvement with literacy initiatives, as the co-founder of Fighting Words*, a creative writing centre for children in
Totally Dublin Weekender | March 26 – 29
Weekender : |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do in Dublin this weekend.
Celluloid Stories: The History of Dublin Cinema Design
Whether it's the cloud of adolescent pheromones or the compounded nostalgia, there is a magnetic force in cinema's ether.
Barfly: Harry Byrne’s
There are few better places to sit than with your back to the fire in the left-hand bar of Harry Byrne's, with its raised grate at waist height to spin…
Barfly: Smyth’s of Ranelagh
If Smyth's was a political party, it would be a populist one. It retains traditional values in its interiors and decor, but it also reacts and moves with the times,…
Album Review: Jeff Bridge – Sleeping Tapes
Jeff Bridges' Sleeping Tapes is the weirdest and best novelty album since William Shatner's Has Been.
Album Review: Enablers – The Rightful Pivot
The Enablers are like like an intoxicated Television over post-Beat tales of city dwelling drunks, losers and users and the brief moments of clarity.
Album Review: Dutch Uncles – O Shudder
Dutch Uncles' latest comes over like a less anthemic Phoenix or less shite version of Passion Pit.
Album Review: Natalie Prass – S/T
Natalie Prass comes out of the blue with a record full of rich arrangements thats echo of Laura Nyro's early work.
Album Review: Tim Warfield – Spherical
By the time you get to the familiar opening of the closer Round Midnight, you will be repeating to yourself ‘By God, do I ever love jazz music.’
Album Review: Tobias Jesso Jr. – Goon
Tobias Jesso Jr's debut is pleasant, if a bit one-paced to be reaching for classic reference points just yet.