Archive - What Fresh Hell?

My friend Henry McDonald died a year ago today

The self-styled "punk journo" was an essential chronicler of the maddest and baddest of the Northern Ireland conflict, but never succumbed to…

Feb 19 •

January 2024

Anna Funder’s Wifedom: travesty sold as biography

Eileen O‘Shaughnessy deserves better than this litany of baseless assumption and lazy characterisation

Jan 21 •

December 2023

Alain De Botton has published a self-help novel. May the Lord have mercy on us all

He's met writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards

Dec 21, 2023 •

Shane MacGowan’s legacy is the right to choose how to be Irish

A great diaspora artist, the Pogues singer gave the London Irish the right to shape their own story

Dec 2, 2023 •

November 2023

On Joseph Roth, the edge, and the end

The complicated life of European literature's master of melancholy

Nov 19, 2023 •

July 2023

This is What Fresh Hell?.

Jul 18, 2023 •

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