Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation
Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel Annihilation offers a lengthy (526-page) disquisition on the journey to death,…
Browsing: Society & Culture
Public Intellectuals: Fyodor Dostoevsky
In an age of unrestrained Russian-bashing, the figure of Fyodor Dostoevsky might seem a provocative…
“We Bury the Funsters” – Lethal Weapon Revisited
With Christmas fast approaching, a familiar debate will resume in homes, offices and their Zoom…
Still Life: Photography Competition
Cassandra Voices is delighted to be collaborating with the charity Collateral Global on a photographic…
Managing Risk in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Lessons from Adventure Sports
I spent twenty years working as an adventure sports guide. In my early twenties, I…
The Greatest Troubadour: Jacques Brel
In search of the my favourite troubadour all roads lead to Flanders, Belgium, then on…
The Nascent Age of the Self -Involved
One must begin by asking a begging question: is literary criticism, in Ireland, dead? Recently,…
Kneecap – Don’t Look Back in Ongar
Out with the old, in with the new. In the same month that Don’t Look…
Review: Trump Rant by Chris Agee
“Trump Inhabits Trumpistan”, writes Chris Agee in his rampaging poetic satire, Trump Rant: “Trump Is…
Review: Father, Son and Brother Ghost
Few writers can do grief and loss like John MacKenna. He is, without question, the…
ENOUGH! Confronting Woody Allen
These are extraordinary times. Last month serial sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein, had his 23-year sentence…
LONG READ: The Sleep of Reason II
Editor’s Note: This is the second part of an extended essay by Irish artist Terence…
Podcast: A Flawed Consensus: COVID-19 in Africa
Bonus Episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep8-bonus-flawed-103879168 Or via apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cassandra-voices-podcast/id1728086643 In our latest Podcast Frank Armstrong…
LONG READ: The Sleep of Reason I
It is a notable feature of the prevailing world order that citizens of Western states,…
Freebirthing in Ireland
It’s Mother’s Day morning and I am on the brink. Desperate, determined, exhausted and certain…
A Whistleblower’s Motive
In a seminal scene at the end of the film Joker (2019) the eponymous character,…
Podcast: Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied! With guest Patrick Cockburn
The first Cassandra Voices Podcast, hosted by Luke Sheahan, features a long form interview with…
White Christmas
Editor’s Note: Readers of a sensitive disposition may find aspects of this account of drug-taking…
False Prophecy
Imaginative fiction offers invaluable insights into everything from national characteristics to institutional malaise and pathological…
The Passing of Shane MacGowan
I sat for a while by the gap in the wall Found a rusty tin…