Dave Duggan

It started in Hospital: My Writing Life Francesco Pacifico, a novelist based in Rome, wrote Coronavirus Dispatches for the New York literary magazine, n+1. Number eight in the series was entitled A Breakup Letter to my Writing…

Colson Whitehead is an American literary lion. Scion of a wealthy New York family, educated in a private school and an elite university, he lives and works in Manhattan. He has written seven novels, all of them well-received, a number of…

I, DANIEL BLAKE is an acclaimed film by directing and writing team Ken Loach and Paul Laverty. It tells the tortured odyssey of Daniel and Katie through the benefit system in Newcastle, in the north-east of England, where he is a local,…

A panda gives birth to twin cubs and we obsess. What is it about pandas and sex? We scour the globe for mates for lone pandas. We strive to create matching pairs. We salivate, like porn-junkies, waiting for them to mate. Their coitus is…

TO WEAR OR NOT TO WEAR: THAT IS THE QUESTION James McClean is a young Irish professional soccer player from Derry Londonderry, making his living in England. He writes publicly to his employer to explain his reasons for not wearing a…

Tell her it’s a game Tell her it’s serious The current onslaught on the people of Gaza, the latest in a series by The Israeli State and Defence Forces, shows: That if they wish they could blow the people of Gaza into the sea of oblivion.…