Originally published in print February 2021. The couple of Bryan Washington’s Memorial have a problem: they still love each other and they both know it. This is the complication of the novel as told by Benson, whose boyfriend, Mike, … Continue reading Bryan Washington’s ‘Memorial’ // A New Way of Telling an Old Story
I had first read the phrase ‘corpsing’ in Anne Enright’s novel Actress. It refers to the moment when an actor breaks character as if their role … Continue reading Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows by Sophie White // Review
TN2 Magazine’s ‘Fiction Club’ is a monthly forum for writers to read, discuss and dissect selected works. To suggest a piece of literature for consideration contact literature@tn2magazine.ie ‘Macadam’ is a length of prose recounting the narrator’s memory of a road … Continue reading ‘Macadam’ by Lucia Berlin // Fiction Club 3
Originally published in print November 2020. When Sally Rooney’s debut was released, she was “the Salinger for the Snapchat generation”. When Naoise Dolan’s first book was published, The Irish Times promised Exciting Times would “fill the Sally Rooney-shaped hole in … Continue reading The Weirdness of Capitalism in ‘Conversations with Friends’ and ‘Exciting Times’
Illustration by Maeve Breathnach TN2 Magazine’s ‘Fiction Club’ is a monthly forum for writers to read, discuss and dissect selected works. To suggest a piece of literature for consideration contact literature@tn2magazine.ie ‘Emergency’ is a story from Jesus’s Son, Denis Johnson’s 1992 … Continue reading ‘Emergency’ by Denis Johnson // Fiction Club 2
The leadup to Christmas is daunting. Now the question of which business to support is as vital to many as which gift to buy. With the economic devastation the arts have suffered through the pandemic, an exclamation has loomed large … Continue reading 5 Gift Suggestions for Christmas Time
Illustration by Maeve Breathnach. TN2 Magazine’s ‘Fiction Club’ is a new monthly forum for writers to read, discuss and dissect selected works. To suggest a piece of literature for consideration contact literature@tn2magazine.ie ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ was … Continue reading ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ by Edgar Allan Poe // Fiction Club 1
Originally published in print September 2020. This is the first entry in a new flash fiction series by TN2, which aims to give a platform to exciting new writers from Trinity. If you would like your fiction to be … Continue reading Temporary Arrangements // Flash Fiction
Illustrations by Lola Fleming and Ciarán Butler. Connor Howlett (Film Editor) The idea behind this Film Club is to pick a film that I think deserves more attention, and set my deputies and another TN2er the homework of watching it. … Continue reading Film Club 3: Emile Ardolino’s Dirty Dancing
The Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe Poe is a master of gothic fiction and the first notable American to write in the genre. This collection of short fiction is dominated by its sensationalist style of … Continue reading 6 Literary Horrors for Spooky Season
It seemed that on a global level, with each country’s eventual lockdown, many were inspired to launch themselves into creative productivity. Painting or writing became an avenue for many to direct fears and frustrations through, but Frieda Hughes does this … Continue reading Coronavirus Paintings // Frieda Hughes in Lockdown.
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin Giovanni’s Room is the oldest novel on this list, but it feels just as modern as its peers. It is one of Baldwin’s greatest novels, though mostly overshadowed by his other more famous works If … Continue reading Four Contemporary Classics to Outlast our Lifetimes Originally published in print March 2020.