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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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November 2013

The Past is a Foreign Country

Natasha Hoare

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November 2013

‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ The immortal first line to L. P. Hartley’s...

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Issue No. 4

Tibetan Kitsch

Evan Harris

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Issue No. 4

I first glimpsed the Potala Palace behind the bending legs of a prostitute. She swayed, obscuring a vista of...

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June 2014

Hoarseness: A Legend of Contemporary Cairo

Youssef Rakha

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June 2014

U. Mubarak It kind of grows out of traffic. The staccato hiss of an exhaust pipe begins to sound like...

 

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