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The Elaborate and the Minimal: The Aesthetics of Book Cover Design
Before I sit down to write this, I make myself a cup of tea. I remove a tea bag from a small…
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A Portrait of an Irish Town: Donal Ryan's The Spinning Heart
It was on my reading list two years ago for an Irish Literature course that I was taking in university. The two…
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A New Favourite: Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn
It was a Thursday morning. Guided by a tradition that had developed, unbeknownst to my Dad and I, over a few years,…