197: Books of 2025

Seamus Heaney, Lara Pawson, John Warner, Joseph O'Connor, Isabel Colegate, Molly Twomey, Audrey Molloy, Tony Judt, Shannon Vallor and many more.

Dec 13, 2025

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196: Three weeks of fondant bloom!

Audrey Molloy, Stephen Grosz, Laura Cumming on Turner and Constable, Patrick Marber on Tom Stoppard, George Eliot, Mike Hobbiss, Ian Mortimer and…

Dec 6, 2025

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November 2025

The Occasional 11

Neil Postman, Lara Pawson, Thomas Newkirk, Harriet Walter, John Warner, John McGahern, AI in English teaching, Michael Longley, Shannon Vallor, Nicholas…

Nov 29, 2025

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195: Mine own, and not mine own

A Midsummer Night's Dream, E.M. Forster, Claire-Louise Bennett, Magdalene Laundries, Jennifer Roberts, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Kate Clanchy, Audrey…

Nov 22, 2025

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The Occasional 10

Carl Hendrick, Barbara Oakley, George Saunders, Audrey Watters, Marc Watkins, Andrew Campbell, Daisy Christodoulou, Bennie Kara, Alan Jacobs, Jonathan…

Nov 15, 2025

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194: Begin afresh, afresh, afresh

INOTE, AI in schools, 'Macbeth', Emma Smith on 'Hamlet', Carl Hendrick & the science of learning, school librarians, Irish short stories, Anne Enright…

Nov 1, 2025

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October 2025

193: Ten thousand doorways

Helen Lewis, John Tomsett, John Keats, Vona Groarke, Seamus Heaney, J.L. Carr, Daniel Willingham, Rachel Ruysch, Gore Vidal.

Oct 11, 2025

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September 2025

192: Wherever life pours ordinary plenty

Nicholas Carr, Rachel Cusk, Caoilinn Hughes, Kyra Davis Lurie, James Marriott, Daisy Christodoulou, Conor Murphy, Mary Oliver, Timothy Snyder. And more.

Sep 27, 2025

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191: Carob of Cyprus ink

Molly Twomey, William Wall, Michael Longley, Culture Night, Fintan O'Toole on Easter 1916, Deborah Levy, Alan Jacobs, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Emma…

Sep 13, 2025

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August 2025

190: All things begin in dreams

Florence Knapp, Adrian Lester on Othello, R.C. Sherriff, Anne Enright and Joseph O’Connor on John McGahern, essays on Leaving Certificate English, Oscar…

Aug 30, 2025

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Late summer update, 2025

before The Fortnightly itself returns.

Aug 23, 2025

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AI-IA (Artificial Intelligence-Induced Anxiety)

A special single-essay issue, on the widespread dread and anxiety felt by English teachers about AI and the future.

Aug 16, 2025

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