The Inscrutable Mr. Scruton
At the end of Roger Scruton’s short book On Hunting, an out-of-print memoir about the…
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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…
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…
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,…
Fear, Class, and Universal Basic Income
On the April 13 2024, a man stabbed several people in a shopping centre in…
Freebirthing in Ireland
It’s Mother’s Day morning and I am on the brink. Desperate, determined, exhausted and certain…