Book Review: My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
When I read on the back flap of the book that My Name is Red is nothing like the Western thriller, I couldn’t quite conjure an ‘Eastern’ thriller in my imagination. Orhan Pamuk defined it […]
Literature
Copycat: does originality exist?
As a child, my love for reading led to my love for writing which in turn led to my first attempt at writing a short story. In primary school I wrote a story entitled, The […]
Twitter death-rumour mill: Màrquez the last victim.
Few days ago a Twitter account purporting to belong to the Italian author and academic Umberto Eco stated: “Gabriel García Márquez dies. I received the news now from New York.” The news quickly spread and […]
Of Human Jam, on the Regents Canal, by Padraig O Loingsigh
Of Human Jam, on the Regent’s Canal There’s a poem by Tomas Hardy, bout a lady and a strumpet, and her fear that in the cemetery their bones would mix indecently. “There’s not a modest […]