Finding Land: Audrey Magee’s The Colony
“When you look at the colonial system, one of the things they want to eradicate is the native language, because they don’t understand what’s going on and they can’t control it.”
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Writing toward Meaning: A Conversation with Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan discusses her new story collection, IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT.
The Plague within a Plague: Ethel Rohan’s In the Event of Contact
Rohan is masterful at mining these triads for their palpable uneasiness and unavoidable suffering.
On Collective Trauma and Resilience: Talking with S. Kirk Walsh
S. Kirk Walsh discusses her debut novel, THE ELEPHANT OF BELFAST.
Belonging Is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton
Georgina Lawton discusses her debut memoir, RACELESS.
A Poetics of Questions: The Bower by Connie Voisine
To learn is perhaps Voisine’s primary goal in writing the poems in The Bower.
Identity Politics and the English Language: Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times
Who “owns” the English language?
Traveler in Residence
Then a light turns on and a panic sets in, like noise: unassailable, unnameable.
Voices on Addiction: Jack and the Boss
My sobriety is still a mystery to me. Forty years this December.