Everything points north

Published: Jan. 31, 2019, midnight

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Catherine Taylor on bookish goings on in the north of England, from her family\\u2019s bookshop in Sheffield to the Northern Fiction Alliance of small presses; Diarmaid Ferriter considers the fraught matter of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland; Fr\\xed\\xf0a \\xcdsberg on the spectre of war in Icelandic film and fiction

 

Books

The Border: The legacy of a century of Anglo-Irish politics by Diarmaid Ferriter

Hotel Silence (\\xd6r) by Au\\xf0ur Ava \\xd3lafsd\\xf3ttir

Woman at War, directed by Benedikt Erlingsson

Section 6 of \\u201cAmerican Standard\\u201d, a new poem by Paul Muldoon published in this week\\u2019s TLS; read by Lisa Dwan (full recording available as a separate podcast episode)



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