Drew Basile writes: Susan Sontag writes in On Photography that ‘the practice of photography is now identified with the idea that everything in the world could be made interesting through the camera’. If photographs capture life, Sontag warns that they also flatten it. Mundane details transform into nuanced objects of aesthetic contemplation, but the real […]

Dublin Review of Books

15.07.2025

The Trondheim Allinghams - DRB

David Toms writes: If the port city of Trondheim in Norway seems remote today it is because we have become so used to travelling over land or by air rather than by waterways. In the age of sail, Trondheim, like other such cities, was deeply connected to all parts of Europe and beyond into the […]

Dublin Review of Books

08.08.2025

Prophet of a Coming Time - DRB

Daniel O'Connell

Dublin Review of Books

25.08.2025

Eco and ‘American fascism’ - DRB

Maurice Fitzpatrick writes: There is an urgent need for the US to evaluate the consequences of the full-scale assault on its democracy. One way to begin is to examine the alarming parallels in the US now with one of the most horrific periods of human history. Thirty years ago, in June 1995, Italian critic Umberto […]

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