From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Scarlet Blake is a man
Indulging the fantasies of violent criminals is endangering women
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
