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?
Originally published in print, September 2021. Illustration by Linde Vergeylen. Picture the scene: Oxford brogues on cobblestones, a brown leather satchel stuffed with classic European novels, turtlenecks and blazers underneath the melancholic gloom of autumnal skies. It is, in … Continue reading “A morbid longing”: Dark Academia and The Secret History
Originally published in print, September 2021. If you have found yourself combing through bookshelves in your local bookshop and your fingers brush over authors such as Sophie White, Mona Eltahawy or Doireann Ní Ghríofa, there is a strong possibility … Continue reading Tramp Press’ Stamp on the Irish Publishing Scene
Originally published in print, September 2021. Last August, Stephenie Meyer published Midnight Sun. This companion novel to the Twilight series retold the events of the first book from the perspective of Edward Cullen. Meyer published it in order to … Continue reading Back with a Bite: The Twilight Renaissance
These poems are part of TN2’s ongoing poetry series, “Line Break”. Line Break aims to give a platform to exciting new poets from Trinity. If you would like your poetry to be considered for publication, simply submit it to literature@tn2magazine.ie, … Continue reading Line Break // Volume 1.
‘Grief’, a five-letter word carrying the weight of everything left unsaid; the ‘could have’ and ‘should have beens’. How particularly cruel is the monosyllabic nature of this word, of ‘pain’, ‘woe’ and the archaic ‘dole’. They need only be whispered, … Continue reading Four Weddings and Funeral Blues
This September, Sally Rooney’s third novel Beautiful World, Where Are You will be released. After the immense success of Normal People and Conversations with Friends, it is an understatement to say that there is hype around the book. Coming up … Continue reading The Sally Rooney Revolution