Fict: Katherine Dolan's blog

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Eileen Jones’s Cinematic Life

Few film critics writing today are as educated, prolific, or funny as Dr. Eileen Jones. A co-host with Dr. Dolores McElroy of the weekly podcast Filmsuck and the author of hundreds of articles about film and TV, notably for the left-wing periodical Jacobin, she is the film critic par excellence of the “age of crap cinema”. One of the most...

20 Scenes of War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece was published in its entirety in 1869, 57 years after the French Invasion of Russia, but it was a period...

All Toes on the Towpath

Belfast is a surprisingly wonderful city for running, with no shortage of greenways, parks and riverbank trails. My favorite place for long weekend runs...

The Troubles in Ten Novels

Conflict is a sine non qua of fiction and war has been a central concern of story tellers for millennia. From Gilgamesh to "Nefarious...

Belfast: Troubles on My Mind

We weren't looking for trouble, honestly. We arrived in Belfast in early July, after months of hunkering down in Portland. Apart from the fact...