The James Joyce Foundation in Zurich is deservedly well known to devotees of the writer and one large room there is filled from floor to ceiling with over five thousand books: not just various editions and translations of Joyce’s work but bibliographies, biographies, monographs, literary criticism, dissertations, essays and reference […]

The opening chapter of this strange novel, “A voyage to Arcturus”, describes a seance in London, attended by two characters called Maskull and Nightspore.   Sean Sheehan   The medium is asked to account for his confidence that a manifestation will occur. “I dream with open eyes”, he replies, “and […]

“Some time ago I got arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder”. The opening sentence of “Capsule” by Mateo García Elizondo cannot fail to grab the reader’s attention in a story that becomes a meditative take on existence, occasioned by a prisoner who is launched into space to […]

Movements in space, series of moments tracked and traced, reveal constellations formed by the moments’ connections with one another.   Sean Sheehan   What comes into play are coordinates, iterations, adjacencies, parameters, ratios and the like; and, when the  variables are calculated and mapped,  underlying patterns in the movement of […]