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Roisin Kiberd
Roisin Kiberd is a writer focusing on culture, technology and existence. She has been published in The Dublin ReviewThe Stinging Fly and in the essay anthology Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Productionand wrote a column on internet cultures for Motherboard.


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Virginie Despentes’ ‘Vernon Subutex Two’

Book Review

April 2019

Roisin Kiberd

Book Review

April 2019

In King-Kong Theory (2006), her autobiography and feminist manifesto, Virginie Despentes describes a job she’d held almost two decades earlier. In 1989, aged twenty,...

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fiction

January 2014

Leg over Leg

Ahmad Fāris al-Shidyāq

TR. Humphrey Davies

fiction

January 2014

First published in 1855, Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fāriyāq,’ alter ego of...

feature

March 2015

Plastic Words

Tom Overton

feature

March 2015

Plastic Words was a six-week series of thirteen events which described itself as ‘mining the contested space between contemporary...

Interview

July 2015

Interview with Sarah Manguso

Catherine Carberry

Interview

July 2015

There’s a certain barometer of a writer’s achievement that urban readers know well: did this book cause me to...

 

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