Rothko in Paris
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It’s very tiny –…
Browsing: Samuel Beckett
Love and Literature in Numbers
Whenever I think about Literature I think about Love. Both are written with big Ls.…
The Literary ‘Outsider’ Novel
Does an age of frenetic online activity afford time for literary masterpieces, especially Outsider Novels,…
Restoring Wild Literature
L’histoire naturelle, ce n’est rien autre que la nomination du visible. Michel Foucault – Les…
Love Denied: Baudelaire’s Une Charogne
Une Charogne (1859) is among the most important poems of the 19th century, containing all…
Meeting Ingmar Bergman
I had second thoughts about boarding a plane to Stockholm to meet Ingmar Bergman twenty-four…
Meeting Samuel Beckett’s Genius in Person and his Plays
Undeniably, Ireland has produced some of the finest creative writers in the history of the…