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

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

Guest August 26, 2020 fiction, gender, Ireland, millennials, television

Coping with the Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse in John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary

“I think she’s bipolar, or lactose intolerant, one of the two.” — Jack Brennan, Calvary What could be […]

Alex Sayf Cummings February 19, 2015 Catholicism, Egypt, film, Ireland, memory, sexuality

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

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

Alex Sayf Cummings October 15, 2013 brooklyn, fiction, immigration, New York
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