Review: The Occupant by Jennifer Maier
How would you feel upon discovering the objects of your daily, habitual use—ordinary objects of…
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The Inscrutable Mr. Scruton
At the end of Roger Scruton’s short book On Hunting, an out-of-print memoir about the…
Electronic Music: ‘stepping into a space of anticipation’
I play electronic music, experimental ambient sets or hypnotic techno sets. It’s exciting to begin…
Who Let the Dogs Out? A Review of Babygirl
If you count my two unsuccessful (all cough no high) undergraduate attempts to smoke weed…
Woody and Annie (and Others) Part I
‘I wish I could think of a positive point to leave you with. Will you…
The Secondary World
Christopher Tolkien, referring to his father, defined what J.R.R. called his ‘secondary world.’ He said…
Scratch That: Taylor Swift is a Dime-Store Novelist
The poet Haley Hodges has recently written a winsome essay for Cassandra Voices claiming that…
Taylor Swift is our Greatest Confessional Poet
Confessional poetry has had a haunted reputation from its post-war onset. The literary legacies of…
Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation
Michel Houellebecq’s latest novel Annihilation offers a lengthy (526-page) disquisition on the journey to death,…
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…
Rothko in Paris
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It’s very tiny –…
Review: Trump Rant by Chris Agee
“Trump Inhabits Trumpistan”, writes Chris Agee in his rampaging poetic satire, Trump Rant: “Trump Is…
Ireland’s Toxic Culture of Omertà
Recently walking into a garage to pay for diesel, I scanned the news stand, as…
Review: Father, Son and Brother Ghost
Few writers can do grief and loss like John MacKenna. He is, without question, the…