Beyond ‘girlboss feminism’: queering Irish women’s writing
Naoise Murphy re-examines Irish women’s writing through queer and feminist perspectives, exposing how literary narratives can obscure violence and postcolonial complexity.
Q&A with the author of Artificial Fiction: Imagining Literary Possibility Beyond the Human
A Q&A with the author of Artificial Fiction on the idea of AI-created storytelling, and how nonhuman narratives reshape literary theory.
A famous old shepherd looks for remedies
Explore James Hogg’s writings on Scottish rural life, tracing the loss of communal culture and the social tensions of modern sheep-farming.
Shame in Contemporary You-Narration: Q&A with the author
Denise Wong discusses Shame in Contemporary You-Narration, exploring second-person storytelling, shame, temporality, and narrative experimentation across literature and media.
5 Things You Didn’t Know about Milton and Disability
Five things you might not know about Milton and disability, from writing Paradise Lost while blind to disability pride and care networks
A polyglot writer weaves carpets: A conversation about linguistic hybridity with Sabira Ståhlberg
by Marianna Deganutti and Sabira Ståhlberg In this interview, we dive headlong into the multidimensional world of Sabira Ståhlberg, a distinguished multilingual writer known for her innovative explorations of polyglot creativity. Her work challenges conventional notions of writing by embracing…
What is extra in the ordinary, and why is the intimate often strange?
Eret Talviste explores Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys through scenes of solitude and ordinary freedom.
How Vocatives in Lebanese Arabic Reveal the Subtle Art of Address
Explore how Lebanese Arabic vocatives shape power, identity, and emotion in everyday conversation.
Cats and Other ‘Slightly Magical’ Phenomena in Slightly Magical Irish Poetry and the Long 1990s
A Q&A with Lucy McDiarmid on her new book exploring Irish poetry’s ‘slightly magical’ worlds.