the Dublin Review
Spring 2005
House of Hutchinson, House of Murphy
Why are Tayto crisps different on each side of the Irish border? An inquiry into the great potato-crisp partition [essay]
Shylock's lament
The life and times of Benjamin Fondane, ‘patron saint of all maudits’, from Moldavia to Auschwitz, via Paris [essay]
Solus rex
A young man, a prostitute, and a very expensive dress [fiction]
‘Foreignism’: A Philadelphia diary
Chronicle of a term teaching English literature at an American university, with observations political, topographical and linguistic [diary]
Two visits to Kosovo
Dispatch from a province whose prime minister is about to be indicted for war crimes [essay]
How to eat a fir-tree & keep yr lips moist
A young woman enters a mental hospital [fiction]
Labyrinth of the revolution
How the Velvet Revolution was shaped by the architecture of Prague - and why the revolutionaries never shot a bunch of Communists [essay]
Barcelona, 1975
Remembering sex, books and music - especially sex - on the eve of Franco's death [memoir]