English: Recent submissions
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“Like a Homing Bird to its Nest”: Irish Writers and Mid-Century U.S. Magazines
(Irish American Cultural Institute, 15 February 2023)This article argues that insufficient attention has been paid to the voluminous fiction published by Irish writers in U.S. magazines during the period 1940 to 1970. Focusing particularly on Maura Laverty’s stories for ... -
Introducing stories into downward counterfactual analysis: Examples from a potential Mediterranean disaster
(Frontiers Media, 7 April 2022)How to recognise potential disasters is a question at the centre of risk analysis. Over-reliance on an incomplete, often epistemologically-biased, historical record, and a focus on quantified and quantifiable risks, have ... -
Tennis as literary technique
(Routledge, 6 April 2022)How might a novel play tennis? In a New York Times essay on Roger Federer, David Foster Wallace reflects on how the climactic topspin lob that won Wimbledon for Federer in 2006 was a product of narrative, reliant on a ... -
Constructed Masculinities: Unpicking Working-Class Masculinities through Knitting
(Routledge, 29 March 2022)Connor Shields is a Leeds-based artist originally from Middlesbrough. Combining materials commonly associated with the construction industry, with those of knitting and textiles, he explores themes of queer identity and ... -
On not being able to read: doomscrolling and anxiety in pandemic times
(Routledge, 29 March 2022)This article analyses ‘doomscrolling’, or the compulsive reading of anxiety-inducing online content during the COVID-19 pandemic, against the common idea that it is simply an addictive social practice that impedes mental ...