Originally published in print September 2022. From the live action remakes of animated Disney movies to the Star Wars sequels, people are starting to identify adaptation with badly made cash-grabs preying on our nostalgia. Nostalgia is powerful for the same … Continue reading For love or money?: the Percy Jackson remakes and nostalgia
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
As someone who finished her undergraduate degree in the spring of 2020, I found a lot I could relate to in Catherine Prasifka’s début, None of This Is Serious (2022). The mysterious crack is in fact the weakest element … Continue reading Review: None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka
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”
Originally Published in Print, April 2022. Your work seems defined by journeys of self-discovery. In Skin, your protagonist travels abroad and hates herself. In Red Dirt, the four protagonists have a very debauched and isolating experience. Why did you … Continue reading An interview with Elizabeth Reapy
Originally published in print, December 2021 Popular history has massively influenced the stories we read, the films we watch and much of the content we digest across other media. The division of Shakespeare’s plays into tragedies, comedies and histories … Continue reading The Value of Popular History
Originally Published in Print, December 2021. Last December, Edna O’Brien reached her ninetieth birthday as the undisputed grande dame of Irish literature. The Irish Times ran a piece full of fellow Irish writers doffing the cap. In O’Brien’s adopted … Continue reading Edna O’Brien, Scandalous Woman
Originally Published in Print, December 2021. Last month, Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine. ‘Who is the Bad Art Friend?’ outlined a tangled saga of passive-aggressive email exchanges and a short story plagued by ongoing … Continue reading Bad Art Friends
After trending on TikTok – or more specifically, BookTok – Madeline Miller’s 2011 novel The Song of Achilles has received renewed attention in the past several months. Song of Achilles is part of a surge of fiction based on the … Continue reading Classical Revival: Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles
In 1813, Jane Austen wrote that a man in possession of a great fortune “must be in want of a wife”. Nineteenth-century women, who almost never had a great fortune, had two options when it came to marriage: choose a … Continue reading The Portrait of a Lady: In Want of a Husband?