Publisher's Synopsis
Space to Think comprises a selection of essays and other writings drawn from the Dublin Review of Books over its first ten years. The essays are chiefly in the fields of literature, history, the arts, culture and the human sciences and reflect on both international and Irish themes. The aim of this anthology is to showcase some of the review's best articles and reviews in one beautifully produced volume. Contributors include Roy Foster, Terry Eagleton, Denis Donoghue, Lara Marlowe, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Adrian Hardiman, Catriona Crowe, Pádraig Yeates and Siobhán Parkinson. Subjects include: The letters of Samuel Beckett, The life of Seamus Heaney, The law and Ulysses, The politics of George Orwell, Kevin Barry's Beatlebone, The American crime novel, Courtship in Jane Austen's England, Irish prisoners of war in WWII and The Ryanair experience.
