<h4>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.</h4>

Robert Cremins

A Late Child: The Fiction of Angus Wilson

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Ishiguro’s Orphans

Delicate Relations to the Real: Walking Donald Barthelme’s Houston

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

Robert Zaretsky teaches in the Honors College at the University of Houston. His books include Nîmes at War: Religion, Politics, and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938–1944 (1994), Cock and Bull Stories: Folco de Baroncelli and the Invention of the Camargue (2004), Albert Camus: Elements of a Life (2010), Boswell’s Enlightenment (2015), A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning (2013), and Catherine and Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment (2019). His newest book is Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.

Robert Zaretsky

This Is Not A Conversation: Robert Cremins and Rob Zaretsky on Denis Diderot, Malcolm Bradbury, and Why We Write

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Éamon de Valera

Dev Developing: Ronan Fanning’s “Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power”

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

The Mystics of Mile End

Revelation or Hallucination?

Feast of Excess

Excess Under Control: The New Sensibility in Midcentury Art

Dublin: The Making of a Capital City

Whose Dublin?

1916 Revisited

Hans Fallada

William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles 

Water World

The Outer Edge of Ulster

Enduring History: A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal

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.