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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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February 2016

The Reactive

Masande Ntshanga

fiction

February 2016

My back cramps on the toilet bowl. I stretch it. Then I take two more painkillers and look down...

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November 2014

Every Night is Like a Disco: Iraq 2003

Paul Currion

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November 2014

That day at Kassim’s, there was no music. There was almost no sound at all, not even the echoes...

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February 2011

Middle East protests give lie to Western orthodoxies

Emanuelle Degli Esposti

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February 2011

For thousands of individuals across the Arab world, 2011 has already become the year in which the political and...

 

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