Illustration by Nathan Stazicker Stephen Sexton, a poet from Northern Ireland, is the 2020 E. M. Forster Award winner and author of a pamphlet, Oils, published in 2014 and, most recently…

Clifden Bookshop, Galway / Photo by janmennens While Ireland’s increasingly multicultural population has finally led to a greater representation of diversity in Irish fiction, this essay…

Arch of Marcus Aurelius, Tripoli. Photo by Neil Weightman. “Whoever is uprooted, uproots others.” Simone Weil’s wise words to Charles de Gaulle, future president of France, in 1943, with France still…

Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams. News, Reviews, and Interviews  Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on inte…

Photos from Ó Bhéal, Cork City’s six-years-old-and-still-going-strong weekly poetry reading. Ó Bhéal / Paul Casey An American fiction writer faces a crisis of self-doubt upon fi…