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Editorial: Ending Things on a Positive Note

April 8, 2015

Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country is a memoir comprised of the author’s greatest one-liners, the most memorable of which has a simple message: “The arts are not a way to make a living.

Review: Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair by Scott Laudati

March 25, 2015

Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair bears the marks of experience. Scott Laudati, in his first book of poetry, summons a plethora of different situations to describe a world view that is at times cynical,

Sharp darts

February 17, 2015

The Suss’s editorial team round up the latest news in entertainment.

The Suss Year-end lists

December 10, 2014

The Suss team list their favourite albums, films, books and gigs of the year.

Review: Paul Galvin – In My Own Words

November 26, 2014

Emily Crowley reviews the autobiography of the oft-controversial former Footballer of the Year, Paul Galvin.

The Second Half of Two Sides: The Autobiography

October 29, 2014

As sport autobiography season is here, Ferdia Fallon Verbruggen takes a look at the releases so far and analyses the coaching culture from which the players in question came,

Has the Nobel Prize for Literature become irrelevant?

October 15, 2014

Bryan Grogan reviews the Nobel Prize for Literature announcement and questions its relevancy after years of odd decisions.

Ch-ch-ch-changes: From Shelf to Screen

December 4, 2013

From Shelf to Screen: Shane O’Neill on changing a book before it hits the cinema.

The Best Literary Couples

March 6, 2013

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” As all of you who studied it for the Leaving Cert know,

Review: The Charm Bracelet

January 25, 2013

Take all the chick lit novels you’ve ever read. Now add in a Christmas in New York setting and some mystery and you have the recipe for Melissa Hill’s latest offering, The Charm Bracelet. Holly