Literature

"If Rakim was rap's Woody Guthrie, Nas was the Dylan figure expanding the possibilities and complexity of the form, twisting old fables to match contemporary failings, faithful to tradition but unwilling to submit to orthodoxy." - Jeff…

I find it apt that it was a brilliantly bright, shining day when I met Molly McCloskey. I had finished her newest novel When Light is Like Water the previous week, and had just written a review of it. On the journey to meet her I was …

New York City may be a little full of itself. It may be the tiniest bit arrogant. It may even be a loudmouth narcissist strutting around like the world is its catwalk. But it’s not easy to keep round-the-clock flattery from going to your…

News Crime Writing Festival to Launch in Dún Laoghaire Penguin Random House Ireland have partnered with the Irish Times to launch a new crime writing festival, Dead in Dún Laoghaire. The festival will take place on Saturday July 22nd in Dún…

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…

My head is so full, it’s as if the thoughts and words themselves are pressing on the inside of my skull. My bones and muscles ache. I can’t sit still. Even though I’m physically and mentally spent, I’m not sleeping very well. And I’ve never…

Flora Banks has anterograde amnesia. She is seventeen years old but, due to the removal of a tumor on her brain when she was ten, she cannot make new memories. Anything she experiences lasts only a few hours and is then gone. Her parents…

Despite it having a month until obsolescence, her car had refused to start that morning. Just what kind of crap were they trying to pull? Didn’t they remember the standards? She dug the owner’s manual out from the glove box, batting through…

News Kentucky City Petitions to Become City of Literature The city of Lexington in Kentucky is petitioning to become one of The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Cities of Literature. The city wants to join Edinburgh,…

When Alice stays in her mother's condo after her funeral, she is struck by a sense of anticlimax. She cannot fathom how the physical evidence of her mother's life falls short in representing its reality. All she can do is look at the…