Ireland

Booksmart, Late-Capitalist, Bougie and Banal: Sally Rooney’s Normal People

Inexplicably acclaimed, Rooney’s novel offers canned millennial gender play with a scrawny garnish of warmed-over Marxism.

Trying to Be Someone in Irish, Working-Class Brooklyn: Alice McDermott’s Someone

At the end of Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, we see Tanya, a jaded gypsy, reflecting on the […]