Review: The Girl Missing from the Window – Paul O’Reilly
The prose is predominantly subtle, quiet. At its best, this results in lingering, arresting images of emotional corruption in which lives change forever.
Book Review: The Girl from the Garden – Parnaz Foroutan
Myth intertwines with memory in Parnaz Foroutan’s stirring debut novel, which examines the mysteries that persist even in the most time-honoured family lore.
Book Review: A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
While many novels concern young people growing up and negotiating the world, this one is singular in its amplified depictions not just of life’s cruelty, but also of its happiness…
Book Review: Not The Same Sky – Evelyn Conlon
Conlon succeeds in counteracting the abstract familiarity of the Irish emigration narrative, and in reconstructing the lives of the girls with compassion.
Book Review: Let Me Tell You – Shirley Jackson
If home can be the sacred domain of women, children and trickster ghosts, Jackson also exposes the brittle fault lines of domestic life.
Celebrate Real Bread Week with the Bretzel Bakery
The Bretzel Bakery hosts a talk and tasting in the Bretzel Bakery & Cafe on Thursday, 8th October from 7pm onwards as part of Real Bread Week.
Nice Gaff: 13 North Great Georges Street
The weekend of Friday 16th to Sunday 18th October sees the return of Open House Dublin, essentially Ireland’s biggest celebration of nice gaffs. Emma Gilleece explores 13 North Great George's…
Kaleidoscope at Bello Bar
Kaleidoscope Night is getting ready to launch into their new season in their new home – the cosy and swanky Bello Bar!
Music Interview: Girl Band
I think most bands who end up signing to someone like Rough Trade will be a bit ‘what the fuck?' Dara Kiely and Alan Duggan of Dublin's Girl Band talk…
Book Review: Ideal – Ayn Rand
The dialogue swings between political oration and the kind of clammy, porno lines you’d feel uncomfortable reading aloud. Roisin Kiberd reviews Ideal
Soundbite: Aisling Rogerson The Fumbally
Aisling Rogerson of the Fumbally talks to us about creating space, staying inspired and the fascinating programme they’ve put together for the Autumn Series.
Joined Up Thinking – Connect The Dots
Connect The Dots wants to create a space where the normally adversarial relationship between activists and institutions can be resolved in a space of debate and discussion.
Totally Dublin Weekender | October 1 – 4
Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do in Dublin this weekend.
Album Review: Currents – Tame Impala
Fans of earlier Tame Impala albums will enjoy the spaced-out psychedelic vibe that sticks around on this album
Interview: Simon Cooper – Béni Brasserie Dún Laoghaire
"When the French colonized Vietnam two incredible types of cuisine fused and they created some phenomenal dishes as a result". Simon Cooper Béni Brasserie
Cuba: Th’ time is rotten ripe for revolution
To many of the young people of Cuba the Revolution has faded in significance, and is now simply something that happened to their parents.
Cinema Interview: Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa is a filmmaker unlike any other. In advance of the release of Horse Money, Costa talks to us about abstraction, colonialism and forgetting.
Album Review: Holding Hands With Jamie – Girl Band
Holding Hands With Jamie is a procession of bludgeoning, uncompromising slabs of sound. All new tunes – honed into a filthy dirty fucking horror show.