As we’ve traveled near and far, my children and I spend each Saturday sampling cinnamon-flavored treats.

In Late Summer by Magdalena Blažević, trans. Anđelka Raguž. 176 pp. Linden Editions, 2025. £12. In late summer 2005, I disembarked in the city of Mostar after a three- or four-hour bus ride from…

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In Late Summer by Magdalena Blažević, trans. Anđelka Raguž. 176 pp. Linden Editions, 2025. £12. In late summer 2005, I disembarked in the city of Mostar after a three- or four-hour bus ride from Dubr...

In Late Summer by Magdalena Blažević, trans. Anđelka Raguž. 176 pp. Linden Editions, 2025. £12. In late summer 2005, I disembarked in the city of Mostar after a three- or four-hour bus ride from Dubr...

Michelle Quay is a scholar and translator of Persian literature and was the inaugural winner of the Mo Habib Translation Prize for Persian Literature in 2023. She teaches Persian Language and Liter…

Holy Tuesday, a bag of dried figs left with our stroller

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As the house lights dimmed on a nearly sold-out crowd of 3,000 at the Providence Performing Arts Center on January 29, the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, silhouetted in silence on […]

Holy Tuesday, a bag of dried figs left with our stroller

Stories, tangents and all. Click to read On the periphery, by Seán Carlson, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

The story of a short video I shot in Dublin that went semi-viral during the first Covid Christmas

As I neared the corner of Henry Street, I took out my mobile phone and recorded a video of the surrounding scene, less than a minute in length.

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Seán is working on his first book, a family memoir of migration. His writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Irish Times, the New York Times, RTÉ Radio 1 and elsewhere. His poem, California Redw...

SEÁN CARLSON <br> Frawley revisits memory to anchor her love and affection for each of her parents as she knew them. With precision and tenderness, she flits between their real and imagined pasts,…