Declan Ryan

Declan Ryan’s first collection, Crisis Actor, will be published by Faber & Faber in 2023.

A Down-and-Out but Amusing Character: On Alex Harvey’s “Song Noir”

Dec Ryan reviews Alex Harvey’s “Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles.”...

NONFICTION

MUSIC

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Feeling Versus Argument: On Tom Conaghan’s “Reverse Engineering”

Declan Ryan reviews Tom Conaghan’s anthology of stories and author interviews, “Reverse Engineering.”...

FICTION

Like Standing Stones: On Sam Buchan-Watts’s “Path Through Wood” and Henri Cole’s “Blizzard”

Declan Ryan finds new tenderness and defiance in recent collections by Sam Buchan-Watts and Henri Cole....

POETRY