The Occasional 6
Lots of book recommendations in The Occasional 6, for paid subscribers of The Fortnightly.
Read MoreFortnightly 182
Fortnightly 182 starts with Harriet Walter on Shakespeare’s women, and the usual eclectic mixture follows.
Read MoreHarriet Walter's 'She Speaks! what Shakespeare's women might have said'
Harriet Walter’s She Speaks! What Shakespeare’s women might have said is an entertaining and insightful account of many of the plays’ female roles.
Read MoreEnglish Meet 2025
The fourth English Meet for English teachers in the Dublin area will be on the evening of Thursday 8th May 2025.
Read MoreNeil Postman's 'Technopoly'
Thoughts on Neil Postman’s wise and prescient 1992 book Technopoly.
Read MoreFortnightly 181
Fortnightly 181 is out: memoir, humour, teaching, slowness and more.
Read More'In the Real World'
All too often teachers have to listen to that condescending cliché ‘In the real world’.
Read MoreFortnightly 180
The first Fortnightly of 2025, number 180 since 2016.
Read MoreThomas Newkirk's 'The Art of Slow Reading'
A revisiting of Thomas Newkirk’s book The Art of Slow Reading in the new AI world.
Read MoreAI thinkers for English teachers
Links to thinkers about artificial intelligence, whose writings I find helpful in navigating its implications for English.
Read More#edchatie Mondays on Bluesky
A holding page for details of #edchatie discussions on Bluesky on Monday evenings: every two weeks in term-time for educators in Ireland.
Read MorePosts of the Year, 2024
A collection of 25 pieces of writing from 2024.
Read More'Small Things Like These' read by Andrew Bennett
An account of the ‘Four Rivers’ staged reading of Claire Keegan’s novel Small Things Like These.
Read MoreBooks of the Year 2024
My choices as Books of the Year 2024 in several categories.
Read MoreReading Round-Up, July to December 2024
Reading Round-Up, July to December 2024: books which I didn’t write about at length but which appeared in The Fortnightly Substack.
Read MoreThe 'King Lear scene by scene' series
Links to all the podcasts and transcripts from the ‘King Lear scene by scene’ series.
Read More'King Lear' scene by scene 12
The final episode of King Lear scene by scene looks at the cataclysmic last scene of the tragedy,
Read MoreFortnightly 179: Books of the Year
Fortnightly 179 features a round-up of best books of the year.
Read More'King Lear' scene by scene 11
The penultimate episode of the King Lear scene by scene podcast looks at the lull before the storm: Act 4 scene 7, and Act 5 scenes 1 and 2.
Read MoreFortnightly 178
The penultimate Fortnightly of 2024, starting with Richard Flanagan’s extraordinary Question 7.
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