Viewing Ireland, the world's second wealthiest nation in 2007, through the prism of Charles Dickens' Hard Times, novelist William Wall - in an article based on his recent speech at the Kate O'Brien Weekend - asks his fellow writers to leave their i...
The Ryan Report into clerical child abuse in Ireland is a shocking and sobering document that, argues William Wall, leaves the good and honest in the Catholic Church little choice. The only moral response is to reject the system...
At no time in the recent past have writers been so integrated into the fabric of power and at the same time strikingly powerless as they are now. The contemporary novel is dominated by the elegant, safe, and nostalgic, but now, argues novelist William Wal...
"we recognise something political in you. We suspect that you analyse problems from a political rather than a pragmatic perspective, and we like that, because for most of us, pragmatism is what our politicians call politics, and the political is a sphere ...
Roberto Saviano's non-fiction novel on the Camorra has earned him a death sentence and armed escort in Italy. ...
Giovanni Arrighi, Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, compares western capitalism and the 'industrious revolution' of China - providing a useful insight into the history of world's most populated country in the process....
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