Archive

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December 2011
Chicken Lane: a walk through Stoneybatter, by Adrian Duncan (essay)

November 2011
A sojourn in central Europe, by Ryan Van Runkle (essay)

October 2011
The victim, by Philip Ó Ceallaigh (essay)
Of the monstrous and unnatural, by Leo Benedictus (essay)

September 2011
The verb to be, by Brian Collins (essay)
A brief account of the travails and exploits of a respectable village, by Pauric Holleran (fiction)
My obsession with endstations, by Susan Leahy (essay)

August 2011
Some thoughts on the impersonal eternal, by Gabriela Ailenei (essay)
Goat, by John McAuley (fiction)

July 2011
Two stories, by Cathy Sweeney (fiction)
Civilization and sadomasochism, by Catherine Conroy (montage)
From Lazarus among us, by Jean Cayrol, translated by Ciaran Lawless (essay)

June 2011
The apparitions, by Kevin Barry (fiction)
Open space: walking the boundaries of Tallaght, by Karl Whitney (essay)
Relaxation after a great fatigue, by Ross Weldon (fiction)
On the non-intervention of gods, a winter in Melbourne, and Nicole Richie, by Aileen Armstrong (essay)

May 2011
What time does the Super Bowl start? Or, internet journalism after content farms, by Donald Mahoney (reportage)
Scream when you burn, by Rob Hopkins (essay)
Three stories, by Victor Balcells, translated by Keith Payne (fiction)
The mountain road to Seokguram, by Michael Halloran (essay)
Submission, by Adrian Duncan (jeux d’esprit)

April 2011
A life in literature, or, what you may lose by becoming a writer, by Carlo Gébler (essay)
Last night’s outrageous (retweet), by Helen Chandler (montage)
That time I scattered ashes in India, under the impression that life had meaning, by Tom Mathew (essay)