Jameson Black Barrel Market: De Bruir
Garvan De Bruir grew up as someone who always made things with his hands, but it was during a year studying abroad during school in Auckland that he became fully…
Singles Club: Yorgos Lanthimos Director of The Lobster
“It’s that irony of believing you’re oppressed in this world, and escaping, choosing something very different, and then finding yourself in a similar situation to before: this is what I…
Review: Dinosaurs on Other Planets – Danielle McLaughlin
These stories are often melancholic, even dark, but on occasion, Dinosaurs on Other Planets surpasses such moods to create atmospheres of genuine terror.
Book Review: Hear the Wind Sing/Pinball, 1973
Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 were the first published works by Haruki Murakami, and form the initial two parts of his Trilogy of the Rat, together with the…
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel
In the end the novel manages to be both didactic and drifting, and, despite its boundless energy, is disappointing from a writer of Rushdie’s sensibility and imagination.
Book Review: The Moor’s Account – Laila Lalami
Outsider history can be a powerful weapon against colonial hegemony, but few accounts exist in the annals of Spanish conquests. We will never know much about the historical Estevancio/Mustafa, but…
Book Review: Beautiful & Impossible Things – Gyles Brandreth
At times utopian, at times delightfully shallow, this brief tome offers personal new perspectives on the long-lionised, near-mythical figure of Oscar Wilde.
Book Review: Purity – Jonathan Franzen
Three main stories interweave. By expelling the messiness of character, language art and experimentation from his book, Franzen attains a novelistic purity that is sorely limited.
Barfly: The Fitzwilliam Casino and Card Club
"The air of the place is one of calmness, only punctured by a repeated bursts of elation from the three-card poker table next door". We try our hand at the…
Hendrick’s Chambers Of The Curious
Hendrick’s Chambers of the Curious promises a distinctly unconventional homage to the inherent inquisitiveness of the human mind, offering those who pass through its portals a series of eye-opening experiences…
Of All the Gin Joints: Chambers of The Curious Brussels
We recently embarked on an intriguing voyage of cerebral discovery through the Chambers of the Curious in downtown Brussels.
Win a pair of tickets to Sunday of Metropolis!
We have a pair of tickets to the Sunday at this weekend's Metropolis Festival to give away courtesy of Absolut.
Album Review: Divers – Joanna Newsom
This phenomenal album ruminates on time as a function of life, love, remembering and forgetting. A magnificent, touching record that rewards deep listening time and time again.
Album Review: Thank your Lucky Stars – Beach House
Listening to Beach House's surprise-release sixth album, you have to wonder just what Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand were thinking ten years ago. The assuredness with which they've built on…
Restaurant Review: Middle Eastern Feast at Brother Hubbard
The Middle Eastern Feast is the latest in Brother Hubbard’s expansion, and it’s an addition that immediately makes sense. The menu, available after 6pm from Wednesday to Saturday, promises excitement…
Interview: Stranger Than Fiction – Thomas Morris
'I do take an awful lot from ‘real life’. I'm not sure where else you're meant to find the stuff that's real and feels authentic'. Thomas Morris interview.
Garb: Touchy Subject – Mairead Fox
Recent graduate of NCAD and Future Makers Award recipient Mairead Fox creates intricate and tactile textiles which go hand-in-hand with a measured approach to proportion and colour, further displaying the…