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News Winners of the Hennessy Literary Awards Hennessey held their 46th annual Literary Awards on Tuesday night. The awards are one of the longest running cultural sponsorships, celebrating new Irish writing. This year’s judges were…

New York's famous Brooklyn Bridge was officially opened on May 24 1883 by President Chester A Arthur and has since become an instantly recognisable feature of the city. The bridge has also become something of a final destination for many…

Within the first ten minutes it’s made expressly evident that Aaron Brookner’s new film, Uncle Howard, is going to one that is dominated by loss. In the film’s opening scene we see Howard Brookner’s mother, the director’s grandmother, in…

Daniel Kitson is nothing if not a perfectionist. His latest dramatic monologue cum stand up set performance, Mouse, stars a man who has been working on the same short story for over a decade. He is explaining the story to a mysterious…

How much can music influence someone’s political beliefs? Whenever entertainers speak out for a cause or explore it in their work, there’s often something ham-fisted in how they express their view or understand the topic. But aside from…

Just being able to retrace the same city blocks that so many famous writers traversed is enough to inspire the next great American novel. Of course, the city was more affordable back then and most writers had an uncanny way of financially…

In 1997 and 2000, Radiohead gave us back-to-back releases that would immeasurably change the direction of alternative rock. If the first, OK Computer, redefined the sound of the guitar-driven band, then the follow-up would completely…

There’s an odd dignity to the title of “old money”, born from the strange notion that one should respect someone more if they have not earned their fortune, rather than less. This idea is, of course, strongly fostered by those in the…

Germaine Greer’s Love Letters A 30,000 word love letter penned by Germaine Greer to her former lover and writer, Martin Amis, has been discovered amongst an archive of Greer’s work, which she donated to the University of Melbourne in…

Low  Ones and Sixes The mid-1990s was that strange time when the mainstream was trying to market the alternative as the mainstream with the music industry desperately in search of the next Nirvana.  It was the period of not so subtle…