May 2013
13 posts
Jesse Norman interview: Edmund Burke, our chief of...
Michael Sandel interview: the marketization of...
American Voices On 'The Unwinding' Of America's...
Frank McGuinness's Thoughts
The village idiot who defines home truths to ‘sane...
Interview: Jared Cohen and The New Digital Age
Tech guru Jaron Lanier prophesies a chilling...
Interview: David Graeber, leading figure of Occupy
April 2013
7 posts
Interview with Jaron Lanier In New Humanist...
Altered states: an altar boy’s struggle with...
Interview with poet John Ashbery
Home truths about the suffering of children
Interview with a writer: Kevin Maher
Interview with Tony Elumelu
Bernardo Kucinski 'K'
March 2013
12 posts
Interview with a writer: John Banville
Former Irish president Mary Robinson discusses her...
Interview with a writer: Jaron Lanier
The power of words tested to the limits
This is What Democracy Looks Like: David Graeber
The fiction of humanity: An interview with John...
Bringing a female poet’s touch to the memories of...
Ready, aim… best-selling scientist targeted for...
The High Caul Cap
Warring systems: are nation states better than...
Interview with a writer: Jared Diamond
Jewish Times Ancient-culture clash brings Diamond...
February 2013
8 posts
A poem I had published on the Irish Times blog:...
John Gray: The Silence of Animals
Interview with a writer: Professor Neil Shubin
Carson focuses on the music alive in Rimbaud’s...
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Interview with a writer: John Ashbery
January 2013
7 posts
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Interview: Kofi Annan
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Interview with a writer: John Burnside
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Yoram Kaniuk, reluctant soldier in 1948
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A chapter of history
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Presenting the Wider Picture
December 2012
8 posts
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How soccer turned Russian Jews into Brits; In a...
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Wole Soyinka: Straight Talking