Audio: Blood Orange – Freetown Sound
Freetown Sound is an ever-mixing bricolage of different genres. Half protest album, half personal diary.
Book Review: Barkskins – Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx, at 80 years of age, can certainly not be faulted for effort. Her new novel, Barkskins, encompasses 300 years of colonial history and its effects over 700-odd pages.
Book Review – So Sad Today: Personal Essays Melissa Broder
So Sad Today has been saluted as realistic: despite not offering a golden bullet of recovery, a 344k-follower count remains a redemption of sorts.
BeKreativ: A Blast Of Colour With Fuchsia MacAree
Fuchsia MacAree is one of the country’s most bankable illustrators. Her bold and bright designs have adorned everything from billboards to books and it’s this recognisable style that has led…
Book Review: Zero K – Don DeLillo
The book is so over-the-top DeLillo that it finally winds up being one of his best.
Book Review: The Bones of Grace – Tahmima Anam
The Bones of Grace is an astonishing achievement: lyrical, linguistically gorgeous, upsetting, and wholly worth reading.
Barfly: O’Shea’s Clonskeagh House
It is rare for a pub’s greatest selling point to be its carpark but O’Shea’s Dodder-adjacent sun-trap seemed to be the establishment’s primary draw over the last few years.
Restaurant Review: Manifesto
I was expecting a laid-back, fun pizzeria and instead I got a stilted, grandiose white table-clothed restaurant. Perhaps it was an off night? Or perhaps Manifesto needs a boost of…
Cinema Review: Chevalier
A funny if somewhat repetitive take on the fragility of white-collar masculine identity.
Cinema Review: Summertime (La belle saison)
Corsini's film is stylish and bracing, intermingling the burgeoning romance between Carole and Delphine (and its accompanying challenges) with the fight for reproductive rights in ’70s France.
Cinema Review: The Commune (Kollektivet)
Vinterberg delivers an extremely affecting and somewhat unique emotional narrative, but in doing so sacrifices a great deal of depth...
Cinema Review: Star Trek Beyond
Picking up halfway through the Enterprise’s legendary five year mission of exploration, the plot brings the crew into conflict with a warmongering alien race in a desolate corner of the…
Cinema Review: The Neon Demon
Despite a completely bonkers final act that nearly redeems the whole thing, this ultimately has to be chalked down as another misfire from the Danish director.
Cinema Review: Men & Chicken
Men & Chicken is essentially an x-rated Roald Dahl story, which is no bad thing, but by no means for the faint of heart.
Setting Sail: Ships launch Fund:it Campaign
We talk to Sorca McGrath of Ships about the Fundi:it campaign for their debut album.
A Different Country: Interview with Filmmaker Edmund Lynch
Director Edmund Lynch’s new documentary film A Different Country will premiere later this month at GAZE International Film Festival, one of the largest LGBTQ film festivals in the world.
Home Truths: Interview with Oh Boland
Hailing from Tuam, Oh Boland have been releasing mildly demented garage pop since 2013. We spoke to singer and guitarist Niall Murphy about the academic life and the particular ennui…
GAZE Film Festival 2016: Interview with Noel Sutton
This month, one of the top 20 LGBT film festivals in the world is returning to Dublin: GAZE International LGBT Film Festival. Spanning from Thursday 28th July to Monday 1st