Literature

Audra Kinney has finally left her abusive husband. With her two young children, Sean and Louise, Audra makes her way across America for a fresh start on the West coast. Trying to keep a low-profile, Audra avoids the highways. It is on a…

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. With that in mind, welcome the newly revivified Lit Review! News Save Heaney Country A Crowdfunder campaign seeks to defend a site featured in several Seamus Heaney poems,…

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (originally titled Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus) is often considered to be the first science fiction novel and is a landmark of gothic fiction. First published anonymously in 1818 when Mary Shelley was…

I was wounded. She was lonely. Lonely mother seeks attractive lover (45-65) with the soul of Bruce Springsteen, the mind of Aristotle and the charisma of James Stewart. ONO. Email [email protected] Why not. After all, I’d…

News International Literature Festival Dublin This year's ILFD wrapped up on the 29th May. This year's event had some huge names, such as Ruby Wax, Paula Meehan, Colm Tóibín, Richard Ford and Werner Herzog, as well as our very own Headstuff…

Private Peaceful is a play about a young soldier looking back at the events of his short life as he awaits execution. The play has been adapted and directed by Simon Reade, from the book by Michael Morpurgo, renowned writer of ‘War Horse’.…

News Dublin's Influence on Nigerian Writer Poet and playwright Inua Ellams, who moved to the Dublin suburb Firhouse with his family at 15, has revealed that his time in Ireland was significant and formative. "When I started school in…

"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…