Book Review: The Opposite of Loneliness – Marina Keegan
Even without the context of its publication, The Opposite of Loneliness is a book bathed in the pressure of life’s limits.
Book Review: Insatiable: Porn – A Love Story – Asa Akira
Joining a shelf of victim narratives (Linda Lovelace’s Ordeal) and cautionary tales (Jenna Jameson’s How to Make Love Like a Pornstar), Asa Akira’s breezy porn memoir redresses the balance.
Book Review: Jan Carson – Malcolm Orange Disappears
Malcolm Orange has spent most of his life in a beat-up Volvo, travelling ‘all across America with a backseat full of grandparents’.
Book Review: How To Be Both – Ali Smith
Deservedly shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, Ali Smith’s How to Be Both is a novel in two parts, one focusing on Renaissance painter Francesco del Cossa and the other…
One Amor Tune: An Interview with Dan Snaith of Caribou
We have two ways of thinking about the sublime. One is the revelation of regularity and harmony underpinning the bizarro phenomena of the world around us, the other is an…
Album of the Month: U2 – Songs of Innocence
It is 1am on September 16th, 2018. Your Apple Watch vibrates and you peer down at the push notification pulsing light out from your wrist. ‘You’ve just got a Tinder…
Album of the Month: So Cow – The Long Con
So Cow, the closest thing to a prestige act the current boom of quality Irish indie has, are back and for the first time ever somebody’s after letting them into…
Lute and plunder: Jozef Van Wissem
Jozef van Wissem, the most famous lutenist since Martin Prince takes to the stage of Whelans to recreate the soundtrack to Only Lovers Left Alive.
Hallowed Halls and Houses: David Jazay’s Dublin Photography
German photographer David Jazay’s collection Dublin Before The Tiger collects, with incredibly beautiful detail, images of Dublin’s inner city from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.
Totally Dublin Weekender | September 25 – 28
Weekender: |wiːkˈɛndə|– noun – what to do with your weekend.
Cinema Review: Wish I Was Here
Bloom can do nothing but inflict truly banal suffering — frustrated suffering without hope — on the characters that surround him in Wish I Was Here.
Dublin Theatre Festival: Ganesh Versus The Third Reich
Juggling a huge amount of interesting issues, Back To Back Theatre's Ganesh Versus The Third Reich tangles autobiography with big historical drama.
Dublin Theatre Festival: A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing
We speak to Annie Ryan from Corn Exchange's stage production of Eimear McBride's novel A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing.
Dublin Theatre Festival: The Seagull and Other Birds
The Seagull and Other Birds riffs on Chekhov, contemporary television shows like Girls and the concept of Americanitis and modern neuroses.
Dublin Theatre Festival: Hamlet
Schaubühne Theatre's artistic director Thomas Ostermeier is aiming to draw radical conclusions from Hamlet.
Fringe Review: LURKY! LURKY!
LURKY! LURKY! is a stark, feral roar. Fitzgerald and Stapleton know what their quarry is and they go straight for the jugular.
Fringe Review: Reckoners
The dark reality of Reckoners is conveyed through a series of rhythmically interwoven monologues, that conjure a bleak world through chewed and spat language.
Fringe Review: Hilary Woods – Night
Hints of Angel Olsen and Sharon van Etten pervade Hilary Woods' performance of Night which was for all intents and purposes the launch of Night, the record.