Our calendar guide to this summer
Our writers highlight their top picks for a variety of events to look out for this summer. Continue reading Our calendar guide to this summer
Our writers highlight their top picks for a variety of events to look out for this summer. Continue reading Our calendar guide to this summer
Robert Coover has returned to the scene of his first novel with a 1,000-page bizarre and brilliant sequel to The Origin of the Brunists, published in 1966. Continue reading Review: The Brunist Day of Wrath // Robert Coover
Lily Ní Dhomhnaill discusses the ups and downs of the world’s biggest book marketplace on the 20th anniversary of Amazon.com. Continue reading Jungle Fever
In the first tn2’s profiles of contemporary Irish writers and editors, Lily spoke to author Rob Doyle. Essayist, critic and short story writer, Doyle’s work has featured in several literary magazines, including The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Gorse, and … Continue reading Interview: Rob Doyle
WORDS LILY NÍ DHOMHNAILL “The Wire written by Voltaire”… “Crime and Punishment as reimagined by the Coen Brothers”… “as if William Blake had rewritten his poems while listening to hip-hop”… “a cross between Moby-Dick and Police Academy… Descartes and Disneyland”. These … Continue reading Dramatist Personae
WORDS Lily Ní Dhomhnaill Tato Laviera’s first poem was written, unsurprisingly, in his beloved Lower East Side after an encounter with a barefoot Puerto Rican boy sitting on the street. “I went and sat on the stairs and wrote my poem … Continue reading Obituary: Tato Laviera
WORDS LILY NÍ DHOMHNAILL Colin Barrett’s stark debut Young Skins examines the lot of the young male in small-town Ireland with icy clarity. In the fictional town of Glenbeigh (“My town is nowhere you have been, but you know its ilk”) … Continue reading Review: Young Skins // Colin Barrett