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The Green Bicycle and the Weight of Motion: Samuel Beckett’s Molloy
Todd Webb, Alesia, Paris, 1950. Gelatin silver photograph. © Estate of Todd Webb / Todd…
Paper Sovereigns: Authorship, Revolt, Form in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
First-edition dust jacket of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1939). Its…
The Spear, the Oar, the Scale: Homer’s Measure of Human Greatness
The pretendants Recit of the Homere Odyssee recounting the massacre of the penelope pretendants on…
Irish Vampirisms before Dracula: Dearg-Due and Abhartach
Vampire Painting by Edvard Munch – Munch-museet, Oslo, Norway Dear reader, The essay below forms…
Mud, Circles, and the Labour of Wonder: The Poetics of Attention in Saoirse Anton’s Poetry
Which creature returned from every road with its own tail between its teeth, and by…
“Plemię” as Archive of the Underside
The book lies on the table like a clot of dried blood: a red square,…
Drunkards, Dads, and the End of History.
The colossal railway clock, suspended in the chill atmosphere of the worn-out platform, announced the…
A Requiem for the Victorian Soul in the Cabinet of Dr. Jekyll
The wind that scours the basalt shoulder of Edinburgh’s New Town carries more than coal…
