Art Kavanagh
@www.artkavanagh.ie
I write about books and literature: Andrew Marvell, Salman Rushdie, Tana French, that sort of thing. My newsletter, Talk about books, goes out every 2 weeks https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/tabarchive
GHT1CD 💿
(Small things come in big boxes)
(Small things come in big boxes)
November 29, 2025 at 11:04 AM
GHT1CD 💿
(Small things come in big boxes)
(Small things come in big boxes)
Bloody hell, Joshua Orpin doesn’t look much like Eric Porter, does he? A “reimagining” indeed 📺
October 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Bloody hell, Joshua Orpin doesn’t look much like Eric Porter, does he? A “reimagining” indeed 📺
How about “Neatly tied up and unflinching”?
October 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
How about “Neatly tied up and unflinching”?
If they’re OK with him running a crypto scam, allowing disease and starvation to spread through the poorer parts of the world, defying the Constitution and deliberately increasing economic uncertainty, why would they object to a rude word?
June 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
If they’re OK with him running a crypto scam, allowing disease and starvation to spread through the poorer parts of the world, defying the Constitution and deliberately increasing economic uncertainty, why would they object to a rude word?
Can’t help thinking an abstract would have been more useful, though I can see it might have been more difficult for the publishers.
March 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Can’t help thinking an abstract would have been more useful, though I can see it might have been more difficult for the publishers.
Trump’s first 100 days … Has it been 100 days already? It feels like barely six weeks 🤷🏻♂️
January 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Trump’s first 100 days … Has it been 100 days already? It feels like barely six weeks 🤷🏻♂️
I got Alboran Trio’s third album, Islands (2020) in the post today from Italy. I wanted the cd rather than a download and Italy was the only place I could get it (possibly apart from Amazon: I didn’t look). It took 4 weeks to get here but at least it did in the end 🎶 🎹
January 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I got Alboran Trio’s third album, Islands (2020) in the post today from Italy. I wanted the cd rather than a download and Italy was the only place I could get it (possibly apart from Amazon: I didn’t look). It took 4 weeks to get here but at least it did in the end 🎶 🎹
I found two Virago paperbacks, Jamaica Inn and Frenchman’s Creek respectively, in the Castlebar Oxfam shop yesterday, at €2 each. I’ve been meaning to read more du Maurier so this is opportune.
December 20, 2024 at 7:56 PM
I found two Virago paperbacks, Jamaica Inn and Frenchman’s Creek respectively, in the Castlebar Oxfam shop yesterday, at €2 each. I’ve been meaning to read more du Maurier so this is opportune.
It seems that Books at One might be in difficulty, according to this subscriber-only story in The Irish Times. That would be a shame.
November 24, 2024 at 11:44 AM
It seems that Books at One might be in difficulty, according to this subscriber-only story in The Irish Times. That would be a shame.
I’m getting really fed up of Substack’s RSS feeds; they really ought to fix them.
November 10, 2024 at 1:37 PM
I’m getting really fed up of Substack’s RSS feeds; they really ought to fix them.
What was a dead judge doing in the courthouse anyway?
September 20, 2024 at 6:15 AM
What was a dead judge doing in the courthouse anyway?
Via John Naughton’s Memex 1.1 blog
memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-24...
memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-24...
July 24, 2024 at 5:14 AM
Via John Naughton’s Memex 1.1 blog
memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-24...
memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-24...
This is priceless! From Noahpinion
www.noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-f...
www.noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-f...
July 10, 2024 at 10:28 AM
This is priceless! From Noahpinion
www.noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-f...
www.noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-f...
I hadn’t appreciated till now that the Rwanda asylum fiasco is yet another ridiculous consequence of Brexit.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
July 7, 2024 at 9:30 AM
I hadn’t appreciated till now that the Rwanda asylum fiasco is yet another ridiculous consequence of Brexit.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
I unexpectedly came across my old copies of The Invention of Solitude and Moon Palace this morning. When Auster died recently, I thought I’d like to read Moon Palace again but assumed I’d left my copy behind somewhere, possibly decades ago. I hadn’t even been looking for it.
May 15, 2024 at 1:59 PM
I unexpectedly came across my old copies of The Invention of Solitude and Moon Palace this morning. When Auster died recently, I thought I’d like to read Moon Palace again but assumed I’d left my copy behind somewhere, possibly decades ago. I hadn’t even been looking for it.
One of the things that irritates me about Substack is that their RSS feeds don’t include links to other Substack users’ profiles, leaving gaps in the text instead. In this case the name “Anna McCullough” is missing.
April 29, 2024 at 10:17 AM
One of the things that irritates me about Substack is that their RSS feeds don’t include links to other Substack users’ profiles, leaving gaps in the text instead. In this case the name “Anna McCullough” is missing.
For a while now, at the back of my mind, I’ve been vaguely, distractedly perplexed that the Dublin Review of Books has been publishing so little material and so irregularly. I just realized that they publish plenty that doesn’t make it into their RSS feed! Should’ve thought of that before.
April 20, 2024 at 10:50 AM
For a while now, at the back of my mind, I’ve been vaguely, distractedly perplexed that the Dublin Review of Books has been publishing so little material and so irregularly. I just realized that they publish plenty that doesn’t make it into their RSS feed! Should’ve thought of that before.
This Irish Times headline quotes somebody as saying that Simon Harris used to turn up in suits three times too big for him. If he wore suits three sizes too big I could accept it but suits three times too big would have to be specially made, wouldn’t they?
April 6, 2024 at 7:13 PM
This Irish Times headline quotes somebody as saying that Simon Harris used to turn up in suits three times too big for him. If he wore suits three sizes too big I could accept it but suits three times too big would have to be specially made, wouldn’t they?