Stephen Phelan

Stephen Phelan is an Irish writer living in Madrid. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Boston Review.

Various Hellfires: On Elias Canetti’s “I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole”

Stephen Phelan reviews “I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader.”...

PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION

MEMOIR & ESSAY

Your Dwell Time Betrays You: On Rachel Genn’s “What You Could Have Won”

A novel about regret and toxic relationships written with clinical rigor and savage wit....

FICTION