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56 days ago

My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’

As a not-yet-out trans teen, The Sensual World – the singer’s rejection of masculine influence – felt like an invocation of everything I was feeling

It wasn’t safe for me to discover The Sensual World…

3 months ago

5 months ago

Dublin is the only large European capital without a metro: what would Leopold Bloom make of that? | Dermot Hodson

In James Joyce’s Ulysses, the city’s most famous fictional resident was as frustrated by its transport links in 1904 as many of us are today

Ireland’s planning body, An Bord Pleanála, will determine l…

6 months ago

Gertrude Stein: an Afterlife by Francesca Wade – how a literary legend was made

A thoughtful biography sheds new light on the motivation behind Stein’s masterwork, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas

When The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas was published in 1933, it made 60-year-…

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien review – a dazzling fable of migration

The adventures of great voyagers echo across centuries as a father and daughter flee from flooding in near-future China

The sea takes many forms in fiction. It was an adventure playground in Robert Lo…

8 months ago

‘Cathedral of crap’: is this the world’s most beautiful sewage treatment plant?

Its lab buildings have a rusticated air while its sleek, paper-thin louvre windows are reminiscent of a luxury ocean-liner. More importantly, the people of Arklow in Ireland can finally go swimming w…

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