Four score and more: Review of “Mortal Coil” by David Boyd Haycock
In contast to David Adam, this is a book whose place in my mental library has diminished rather than increased in the years since – to the extent I had forgot…
No off-switch – review of “The Man Who Couldn’t Stop” by David Adam. TLS 16 July 2014
Although this is explicitly not a self-help book, perhaps the highest praise I can give is that I regularly recommend this in clinical practice and have had very positive feedback…
The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel. SAU Blog Sept 2005
I have always been irritated by the use of “tourist” and “touristy” as terms of abuse. Better the honest-to-goodness tourist than the self-righteous (and probably utterly deluded about “authenticity”) traveler,…
Football movies (review of Goal! in SAU blog, September 2005)
Continuing my ressurection of my sport-themed writing, here is another piece from the Social Affairs Unit Blog. Ostensibly a review of Goal! this is really a mini-essay on football movies – I had written…
Football writing as travelogue: Jonathan Wilson’s Behind the Curtain: Travels in Eastern European Foorball
As I have previously observed , a lot of my writing was once about sport. Much of this was in the form of book reviews, and the odd film review. In 1998…
“The Invention of Morel” Adolfo Bioy Cesares, Reviewed Nthposition 2003 / SF Site 2011
This review was originally published here at Nthposition.com and some years later, with Val Stevenson of Nthposition’s permission of course, a slightly reworked version was published on SF Site Even pieces I have…
Review of “Reading Pictures” by Alberto Manguel, nthposition 2003
Original link here Its almost become a cliché to cite Frank Zappa’s (alleged) quote that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” when decrying the tendency of music…
Review of “The Terrible Two”, Mac Barnett and Jory John, Childrens Books Ireland December 2015
This review was to a large degree dictated by my seven year old daughter. I have always thought that grown up reviewers (especially film reviewers who evidently would be preferred to…
Séamus Sweeney 