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Mary Beth Keane on Writing a Novel of the Irish Diaspora

I’ve always found reading about Ireland compelling, having family lineage that includes a paternal great great grandmother who immigrated from County Cork to Galveston in the nineteenth century. Mary Beth Keane’s Whale Harbor, her fifth novel, was a revelation. She

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Lance Oppenheim: ‘The line between criminal enterprise and entertainment has become so fragile’

With Primetime, the non-fiction specialist switches to drama for a discomforting exploration of a lurid US TV sensation.

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The Ghostly and the Real: On Spirit Worlds in African Literature

Across many African literary traditions, the boundaries between the living and the dead, the seen and the unseen, are fluid rather than fixed. Ancestors, spirits, dreams, and myth are not simply fantastical devices but are unremarkable facts of lived realities,

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