the Dublin Review
Winter 2004-5
The poor old horse
Michel Houellebecq, the noisy dictator of silence [review-essay]
The bad sex weekend
A boy, a bed, and ‘a lot of stuff that wasn't sex’ [fiction]
The man who wasn't there
A retired nurse moves in with her aged father, and is forced to confront his secrets [fiction]
Plumanna
An unemployed waitress, forty-three and pregnant, moves in with her bachelor brother [fiction]
A nun's grave
Amidst the bewilderments of the new Dublin and the disgraced Church, the author reflects on the life and death of his aunt, a Mercy nun [essay]
The infant father
The writings of John Butler Yeats [essay]
Good works for the locals
In Chad, the oil and the damage done [reportage]
Reverting to redneck
In Poland, the author gets robbed, overreacts - and feels a stabbing pain on a dark street [essay]