Book Review: The Shore – Sara Taylor
Segmented into smaller chapters, The Shore follows the plantation owners, Indian women, weather mages, and meth dealers over the course of 300 years.
Book Review: Nobody is Ever Missing – Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey’s debut novel, Nobody is Ever Missing, follows narrator Elyria’s abrupt departure from her stable but unhappy married life in New York to travel around New Zealand, a country…
Book Review: The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Buried Giant is Ishiguro’s first novel in ten years, and while its simple style shows no sign of its long gestation, the complex narrative reveals the time invested.
Artsdesk: Isabel Nolan Bent Knees Are A Give
Isabel Nolan draws on considered research to create a show in Kerlin Gallery of colourful works realised with playful certainty: Bent Knees Are A Give.
Soundbite: Sarah McNally Temple Bar Food Market
Sarah McNally’s parents began running the McNally Family Farm stall at Temple Bar Food Market when she was five years old and she has been immersed in its Saturday morning…
Cinema Review: Get Up And Go
Behold the state of the Irish male. Brendan Grant attempts to capture the unique idiocy of the twenty-something Irish lad with his new comedy-drama Get Up And Go.
Cinema Review: The Canal
The Canal is worth a visit but do not be surprised if you find you’ve seen this all before.
Cinema Review: The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Emperor's New Clothes is a polemic on the banking crisis and the ever-growing divide between rich and poor presented by Russell Brand and Michael Winterbottom.
Film Review: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
In Pigeon, characters live merry lives, they have it good, they just don’t realise it. That’s funny stuff.
Beer Review: Rochefort 10 (11.3% ABV)
Belgian beer has inspired craft brewers across the globe. If Budweiser is the Westlife of beer then Rochefort 10 could be Miles Davis.