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A Late Child: The Fiction of Angus Wilson
Robert Cremins remembers the “tattered humanism” of the fine, now sadly neglected, English novelist Angus Wilson....
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Robert Cremins
Robert Cremins is the author of the novels A Sort of Homecoming and Send in the Devils. Recent fiction has appeared in The Dublin Review. He teaches in the Honors College at the University of Houston.
Articles
Ishiguro’s Orphans
The inimitable fictions of the 2017 Nobel laureate....
Delicate Relations to the Real: Walking Donald Barthelme’s Houston
Robert Cremins takes a tour of Donald Barthelme’s Houston....
This Is Not A Conversation: Robert Cremins and Rob Zaretsky on Denis Diderot, Malcolm Bradbury, and Why We Write
What would Denis Diderot think of a campus protest?...
Dev Developing: Ronan Fanning’s “Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power”
The political biography of Éamon de Valera and his time in power in Ireland....
Revelation or Hallucination?
Sigal Samuel keeps us guessing in her first novel....
Excess Under Control: The New Sensibility in Midcentury Art
"Feast of Excess" is a fine study of the "New Sensibility" in American art....
Whose Dublin?
Dublin’s duality, as Dickson subtly instructs us, remains the key to the city’s identity, from its muddy beginnings to its world-stage present....
1916 Revisited
Dublin's Easter Rising...
Hans Fallada
Primo Levi called Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada, “the greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis.”...
Water World
The connection between Los Angeles’s William Mulholland and Dublin’s James Joyce....
Enduring History: A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal
DONEGAL IS DIFFERENT[1]. One of the largest of Ireland's 32 counties, far-flung from Dublin, on a map it looks like the island’s scraggy forehead. Though the province of Ulster is often used as a byword for Northern Ireland (that ...
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