by Robin Kirk | Jul 17, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
Of course, John Yoo has a right to speak in support of torture. Of course, students should be allowed to listen — or not — to his arguments and make up their own minds. But a university should not be honoring a torture architect with an endowed faculty...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 13, 2014 | featured
A great photo of the bonfires that appeared in the Belfast Telegraph, taken from Cave Hill. Related articles Gerry Adams effigy hangs from loyalist bonfire in N. Ireland (PHOTOS) In Pictures: Twelfth of July bonfires across Northern...
by Robin Kirk | Jul 6, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
“I think you ought to try to forget about your leg.” Jane Gardam, The Queen of the Tambourine Related articles Lauren Collins: At home with Jane Gardam. The Stories by Jane Gardam, review Jane Gardam on Her Books, Which Capture a Greater Britain The Queen...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 29, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
The best sentence I read this week: …And in the middle of the circle of children, like the object of some arcane ritual, there hovered a bomb, its downward facing tip seemingly balanced on Adam’s outstretched finger. Miss Peregrine’s School for...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 17, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
In Northern Ireland, opposing pro-England and pro-Ireland flags have grimly marked territory for decades, showing who is welcomed and who might be refused service—or beaten. But this month, even the hardest of the island’s hard men are lifting their pints in pubs...
by Robin Kirk | Feb 27, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
(From the February 28 Raleigh News and Observer) Duke University is buzzing about an interview in the campus paper that revealed to the world what every student already knew. A freshman is a porn actress. Someone (of course) recognized her. “Lauren,” as she calls...
