Lisa Keogh Reimagines...
The story that Herman Melville left untold comes to life at the Ulster Hall ‘Call me Atha.’ In Moby-Dick, the classic tale of obsession and revenge, author Herman Melville gives scant page-space to the monomaniacal Captain Ahab’s family. A ‘girl-wife’ and a young son, both unnamed, serve as just one more thing abandoned to the hunt. In Ahab’s
Neil Shawcross Paints...
Neil Shawcross is waxing lyrical about True Tales of American Life, an anthology of ‘true stories that sounded like fiction’ collected by Paul Auster. He calls them ‘amazing’ and adds that the short story is one of his favourite modes of writing. The renowned portraitist has an obvious interest in the written word: an example of which
