- One thing we could do (No. 4)
The theory and practice of exile [essay]
- Ringing a bell (No. 9)
The jukebox in the Devonshire Arms Hotel, Lismore, Co. Waterford [review-essay]
- Riffing (No. 11)
The jazzmen and the modernists [review-essay]
- The Black North (No. 14)
Van Morrison’s race music [review-essay]
- The Joyce problem (No. 15)
How James Joyce has been domesticated [essay]
- The strangeness of Elizabeth Bowen (No. 20)
Two new books try to take the measure of a great writer from a hidden Ireland [review-essay]
- Going inland (No. 22)
John McGahern’s story, re-told as fact [review-essay]
- Lisbon diary (No. 25)
The streets and secrets of an old city [journal]
- Bending, lifting, ploughing, poking (No. 30)
On the meaning of sport, past and present [review-essay]
- In the compound (No. 34)
Among the migrants in Qatar [personal history]
- The man from Mosul (No. 41)
An Iraqi bird of passage [memoir]