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Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy and the comedy of the Mexican political system than Hamlet, Macbeth and Don Quixote. They’re much better than any column of political analysis.

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The Gadfly: An Irishwoman’s novel about revolutionaries

6 July 2020 / 373

Jenny Farrell remembers Ethel Voynich, who died 60 years ago this month, and who wrote The Gadfly – An Irishwoman’s novel about revolutionaries Liam Mellows read this novel of... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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The Gael becomes Irish: the long-term consequences of colonisation

19 May 2020 / 369

Jenny Farrell reviews Tomás Mac Síomóin’s The Gael Becomes Irish: An Unfinished Odyssey, Nuascéalta, 2020. “The Gael Becomes Irish”is Tomás Mac Síomóin’s latest publication, and it continues... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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Charles Dickens and working-class literature

11 May 2020 / 347

Jenny Farrell discusses Charles Dickens, the first English novelist to put ordinary people at the heart of the story This month marks the 150th anniversary of the... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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Robert Tressell’s 150th anniversary

19 April 2020 / 407

Robert Tressell was born 150 years ago, on 17 April 1870 – see here Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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‘Most good art is queer’: Fran Lock interviews Golnoosh Nour

27 March 2020 / 480

Fran Lock interviews Dr Golnoosh Nour, who was born in Tehran, about her new book, The Ministry of Guidance and Other Stories. Her debut poetry collection Sorrows... Continue reading

Fran Lock

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From the dystopian chaos of the free market to the solidarity of co-operative communism: the Maddaddam trilogy

12 November 2019 / 399

Jenny Farrell discusses Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy Margaret Atwood, who turns 80 in November 2019, has written several novels that explore dystopian situations or circumstances where people are... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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Finnegans Wake, fascism, and the essential unity of the human race

3 September 2019 / 349

Sean Ledwith shows how Finnegans Wake, far from being an incomprehensible waste of Joyce’s genius, is an anti-fascist masterwork, uniting and celebrating the wholeness, richness and vibrancy... Continue reading

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The Cave of Gold

26 August 2019 / 416

David Betteridge re-tells an old tale, inspired by John Berger, Timothy Neat, and Margaret Bennett, with drawings by Bob Starrett The Cave of Gold by David Betteridge On... Continue reading

David Betteridge

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Gone Underground: imagining revolution in Britain

5 August 2019 / 333

Phil Brett has just published Gone Underground, the second of his Pete Kalder novels. It’s a crime novel, set in a future revolutionary Britain, and here he explains... Continue reading

Phil Brett

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Poetic Justice

9 July 2019 / 332

Poetic Justice by Moya Roddy Fuckin’ mad, Stacey thinks, eyeing the crowd milling outside the theatre. Imagine goin’ to hear poetry this hour of the morning. Across... Continue reading

Moya Roddy

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Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy and the comedy of the Mexican political system than Hamlet, Macbeth and Don Quixote. They’re much better than any column of political analysis.

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