Bants with the staff, bespoke service, bang for your buck, and a better chance of procuring something a little more thoughtful for your loved ones/enforced Kris Kringle are all benefits of keeping it local. We’ve decided to help you support some of Dublin’s best indies with a handy guide to the city’s finest.
Cabinet editor, essayist and fiction writer on art and charlatanry.
Oulipo genius Perec and new Irish poetry considered in this month’s book hunt.
The suburbs have often been a reference point in an attempt at understanding American culture and are widely explored through the medium of cinema. From the obsolete Bates Motel in Hitchcock’s Psycho to Jim Stark’s disillusionment in Rebel Without a Cause, suburbia gets bad press in the American context. When read more…
JG Ballard, Dalkey Archive’s Best European Fiction, Amy Sackville and Alejandro Zambra in focus.
Author Lee Rourke explains Varroa Destructor, his fragmentary prose poems named after the thing that’s killing all the bees.
Spurious and Dogma author on new work Exodus and elitism.
Angry, disappointed.
An exploration of the relationship with Beckett that defined his life.
Have you ever wondered about music? Like, in general? Well, David Byrne’s got the answers.
Award-winning fantasy novelist on TV and philosophy.
Self-congratulatory only to the same extent that it is self-deprecating
Exploring the Panopticon with the Scottish author.
