- Such a grip and twist (No. 1)
The life and work of Francis Bacon [review-essay]
- House for sale (No. 2)
A widow contemplates the future [fiction]
- Henry James and Ireland: a footnote (No. 7)
James’s connections to, and hostility towards, his grandfather’s native country [essay]
- What the epaulets were for (No. 12)
Robert Emmet and the historians [review-essay]
- The infant father (No. 17)
The writings of John Butler Yeats [essay]
- Barcelona, 1975 (No. 18)
Remembering sex, books and music – especially sex – on the eve of Franco’s death [memoir]
- The name of the game (No. 22)
A debt-ridden widow turns to a can’t-miss business: chips [fiction]
- A brush with the law (No. 28)
What could the Irish legal system teach a young writer? [memoir]
- Baldwin and ‘the American confusion’ (No. 30)
A great writer’s social critique, in fiction and polemic [essay]
- The pearl fishers (No. 33)
Secrets told and kept, at dinner for three [short story]
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Ten years, ten questions [our anniversary questionnaire]
- The dark sixteenth century (No. 43)
The poet and the massacre in Ireland, from Spenser to Kinsella [essay]
- Jerusalem, Tunis, Hebron, Jericho (No. 66)
Twenty-five years observing the Israel/Palestine conflict [reportage]
- The Philosophers’ Walk (No. 68)
After the death of his father, a writer goes in search of the truth about the universe – and his old notebooks [short story]