Catherine Taylor on bookish goings on in the north of England, from her family’s bookshop in Sheffield to the Northern Fiction Alliance of small presses; Diarmaid Ferriter considers the fraught matter of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland; Fríða Ísberg
on the spectre of war in Icelandic film and fiction
Books
The Border: The legacy of a century of Anglo-Irish politics by Diarmaid Ferriter
Hotel Silence (Ör) by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Woman at War, directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
Section 6 of “American Standard”, a new poem by Paul Muldoon published in this week’s TLS; read by Lisa Dwan (full recording available as a separate podcast episode)
Rock Star, Freak, Agitator
Say What You’re Going To Say
Faint Praise
Birds of a Feather
A Story With Strings Attached
Writers at the Gates of Dawn
Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!
Clarity, Honesty, Fluff
Carnival of Darkness
Give Me Your Heart
A Constant State of Foreignness
Best of 2021
Best of 2021
BONUS: Sarah Hall and Sarah Moss – an interview
This Is Magic
On not letting it be
George Orwell and his Roses and a History of Self-Improvement
Books of the Year 2021
The Mythic Town of Concord and the Magic of the Lighted Window
The Booker-winner and the Beatle
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