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Literature Feature | Literature and the work of Werner Herzog
The 2017 Dublin International Literature Festival (ILFD) is taking place between the 20th and the 29th of May. With guests like Jo Nesbo and Colm Toibin, as well as our own Headstuff Lectures, making an appearance, it’s set to be a fun and…
Halls of Mirrors: How Genre Fiction Can Uncover Feminist Realities
Literary culture is at a point where feminist writing is recognised and celebrated. Feminist literary criticism and theory is now a college staple, and the work of feminist writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Caitlin Moran is…
Should we worry about Readability?
Last week I was taken in. For once, they saw me coming. I was out and about, making my way into the city, attempting to bypass the news feed to get at some messages. And yet something caught my eye. A blog, which shall remain nameless, had…
Reintroducing | Bram Stoker’s Dracula
It started a couple of years ago back in early November in that place where all these things seem to start these days, on twitter, with an effusive outpouring of birthday greetings for Bram Stoker. I in turn also effused a congratulation to…
Headstuff’s Certified Scary Halloween Reading List
This year, HeadStuff has put together a reading list for those who are not as enthusiastic about going out in costume, or perhaps want to start a literary discussion, while wearing a bin liner. The books in our list are perhaps not…
Young Blood: Celebrate Halloween with Guts
This Halloween, Guts have teamed up with the annual Bram Stoker festival to deliver an event celebrating all things blood. Young Blood promises to be a 'bespoke festival edition of Guts that tells people’s common experiences of blood - from…
Canal Bank Misadventure: Kavanagh on the Grand Canal
In Greek mythology, the source of all wisdom passed down through verse, lyric and myth can be traced back to the nine muses, and their residency atop Mount Parnassus. In 'Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal Dublin', Patrick Kavanagh…
Introducing: 4 Clichéd Novels for the New College Student
College reading lists are usually obvious, clichéd and a little pretentious. Even James Franco's Yale reading list seems largely predictable. But, Like James Franco, we should embrace pretension from time to time to remind ourselves of the…
Small Print? | Changes in Irish Publishing
It is well-documented that Irish writer James Joyce once said, “No self-respecting person wants to stay in Ireland.” Although the automatic and unthinking response of many to such a claim would be dismissal, the long, broad narrative of…
Literature on Film | 13 | Analysis on the Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Warning - Spoiler for both novel and adaptation of Never Let Me Go
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as…