Opinion Opinion Belfast’s finest An unexpected favourite at Sunday’s Golden Globes, JENNY FARRELL inspects the political context of the film Kneecap and its ferocious advocacy of the Irish language
Opinion Tuesday 14th Jan 2025 Opinion Translating fiction: a moral case for AI? ANDY MIAH advocates the use of AI to assist people by expanding access to global literature and culture
Album review Monday 13th Jan 2025 Album review The sound of self-loathing EWAN KOTZ tunes into a chilling and subversive album that speaks for a splintered US, its political apathy and complicity in war-crimes
Album reviews Monday 13th Jan 2025 Album reviews Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: January 13, 2025 New releases from Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart; The Weather Station; and Sam Amidon
Book Review Sunday 12th Jan 2025 Book Review Erdogan’s neo Sultanate ANGUS REID wrestles with a detailed analysis of the competing religious alliances behind the ascendancy of conservative nationalism in today’s Turkey
Books Friday 10th Jan 2025 Books Navigating fatphobia ROSIE NELSON applauds a graphic novel that asks what does it mean to exist as a fat person in a fatphobic society?
Books Friday 10th Jan 2025 Books Here’s the story, Doc JONATHAN TAYLOR is moved by the plea to replace mechanistic medicine with a ‘narrative’ approach based on imagination and humanity
Books Friday 10th Jan 2025 Books Lessons from the global South JOHN GRAVERSGAARD recommends a study of trade union organising that brings together exemplary lessons from the Uk and Kenya
Opinion Friday 10th Jan 2025 Opinion Could you live on this? MARGARET HEFFERNAN draws attention to a new report on the conditions of financial precariousness facing visual artists
Short Story Friday 10th Jan 2025 Short Story The Life of Your Dreams by SJ Bradley Anna flees the floods and fires of Earth, but life as a migrant worker on Ganglian-A is grim and exploitative. Her plan of escape is simple and, paradoxically, rocket science
Attila the Stockbroker Diary Friday 10th Jan 2025 Attila the Stockbroker Diary Attila the Stockbroker Diary: January 10, 2025 The bard’s indefatigable knack for rhythm and rhyme tunes into the gloomy zeitgeist and comes out cheerful