Sophie Eastwood is a first year student at Trinity who loves to read, write, and experience new things. These four poems are part of TN2’s ongoing poetry series, “Line Break” that platforms exciting new poets from Trinity. If you would like your poetry … Continue reading Line Break Volume 4
Illustration by Linde Vergeylen. A 90’s style small paperback. A man on the cover, his white blouse billowing. It barely covers his abs. A wide eyed woman gazes at him adoringly, her hair flowing behind her. The book itself … Continue reading Romance novels High Art or cheap pulp?
The humidity kissed Amita’s skin while the sun burned it. Radiation poisoning wasn’t something she had on her to do list at the worst of times, much less whilst outside a theatre. Not that she would be enjoying the show … Continue reading The Extra Shift Flash Fiction
Writing a diary requires being ever so slightly narcissistic. It also requires a tendency to overthink – the compulsion to relive and record your life and the lives around you. Re-reading your old diary entries, though, is taking it up … Continue reading Is Re-Reading Your Diary Ever a Good Idea? Diary-writing gets us bogged down in the minutiae of a moment, so the process of re-reading can provide some much needed critical perspective. It’s also embarrassing.
Originally published in print November 2022. Illustration by Linde Vergeylen For me, autumn is the season for reading. The academic year has started. I’m feeling motivated, maybe I’ve even bought a bullet journal. I’m attending all my lectures, wearing sweaters, … Continue reading Books That Encapsulate Autumn From Frankenstein to Normal People
Illustration by Linde Vergeylen I have fallen in love, not for the first time but the second. And it is because of your second love that you realise, that you can, indeed, fall in love again. That love is not … Continue reading Second Loves A personal essay on the beauty of what comes after your first love
In 2016, Mike McCormack published Solar Bones through Dublin’s own Tramp Press, effectively setting the story of Marcus Conway (Stanley Townsend) into motion. An experimental novel immediately met with high acclaim, Solar Bones became the third most sold Irish … Continue reading Mike McCormack’s Irish novel Solar Bones adapted for the Abbey The experimental Irish novel’s transition to the stage
Originally published in print September 2022. This article references sexual assault. In Either/Or by Elif Batuman, novels lead our protagonist into harm’s way. This much anticipated sequel to 2017’s The Idiot follows the sophomore year of Harvard student Selin in … Continue reading Stepping Out of Scripts Review of Either/Or by Elif Batuman
Photo by Morgan Sessions from unsplash.com. I was halfway through Eve Babitz’s book I Used To Be Charming when the author died. Aside from the inevitable sadness at the loss of a talented writer, my main reaction to the … Continue reading The Fictionalisation of Women Authors I came to realise this I didn’t see Eve Babitz as a person at all, but as a fiction.
Photo by Pierre Bamin on Unsplash In its many shapes and forms it is not usually a struggle to find an argument to link literature to politics, whether a novel’s political intentions are working silently in the background or being explicitly expressed. … Continue reading Are Politics and Literature Inseparable? What is a war novel without war? Read on
Line Break, TN2’s poetry series, is excited to feature two poems from Trinity poet Rebecca Gutteridge. Poet’s Statement I am a British master’s student studying Irish Writing at Trinity. My academic interests lie in gender and material culture, and … Continue reading Line Break: featured poet, Rebecca Gutteridge
Originally Published in Print, April 2022. Tolka is one of Ireland’s newest literary journals, with Issue One hitting shelves just last May. It stands out in our bustling literary magazine scene for its dedication to non-fiction and its focus … Continue reading Tolka: Making Room for the “Formally Promiscuous”