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Free will and Brexit
Julian Baggini
‘Whether or not you think 23 June was a great day for Britain and Europe, it was a very bad one for freedom.’
Fugee
Hawa Jande Golakai
‘Now we’ve fizzled into a ridiculous unsaid, a flaccid tale of love, or lack thereof, in the time of Ebola.’
He Had His Reasons
Colin Barrett
Colin Barrett on the Hawe family murder-suicide, and what the Irish media’s coverage tells us about the nation’s prejudices.
Hell and Night
Noelle Kocot-Tomblin
‘The implication of Iago’s silence is that there is no hope for his redemption’ Noelle Kocot-Tomblin on ‘Othello’.
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby: Best Book of 1995
Ted Robinson
‘It was a story about music and relationships.’
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘But Ireland is Ireland. It resists and relishes its own national images in equal measure.’
Introduction
Sigrid Rausing
‘What future youth movement might capture them, those international participants in virtual hunts?’
Introduction: No Man’s Land
Sigrid Rausing
‘We tangle and project, in exile; we make it up as we go along.’
Julie’s Life
Emmanuel Carrère & Darcy Padilla
‘Even today, she still speaks with emotion about Dorian, the transsexual so proud of her breasts, Diane, who weighed only sixty-five pounds, and Steven, who was so frightened of dying alone that Darcy wished she could promise to be with him when the time came.’ Emmanuel Carrère on addiction and poverty in an forgotten America.
