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Winter 2004-5
John Banville The poor old horse
Michel Houellebecq, the noisy dictator of silence [review-essay]
Anne Enright The bad sex weekend
A boy, a bed, and ‘a lot of stuff that wasn’t sex’ [fiction]
Eugene McCabe The man who wasn’t there
A retired nurse moves in with her aged father, and is forced to confront his secrets [fiction]
Mary O’Donoghue Plumanna
An unemployed waitress, forty-three and pregnant, moves in with her bachelor brother [fiction]
Denis Sampson A nun’s grave
Amidst the bewilderments of the new Dublin and the disgraced Church, the author reflects on the life and death of his aunt, a Mercy nun [essay]
Colm Tóibín The infant father
The writings of John Butler Yeats [essay]
Maurice Walsh Good works for the locals
In Chad, the oil and the damage done [reportage]
Steve Yarbrough Reverting to redneck
In Poland, the author gets robbed, overreacts – and feels a stabbing pain on a dark street [essay]
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