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Stephen Phelan

Stephen Phelan’s work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Believer. 

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Literature & Culture

What Would Doctorow Do?

“However you find your society . . . you do not have to embrace its lies, or become complicitors in its cruelties,” wrote E. L. Doctorow, whose novels offer a map for navigating the Trump era.

Stephen Phelan

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Still Tilting at Windmills

Spain struggles to honor the legacy of Cervantes.

Stephen Phelan

Politics

An Afterthought on Indyref

The ballot paper phrased the question with eloquent bluntness: “Should Scotland be an independent

Stephen Phelan

Politics

A Better Nation

Scotland’s independence referendum is a contest between the head and the heart, between love and money.

Stephen Phelan

Literature & Culture, Science & Nature

Architecture in Extremis

Shigeru Ban's humanitarianism is unquestioned, but are his designs too humble to warrant architecture's most coveted prize?

Stephen Phelan

Politics

Rodolfo Walsh and the Struggle for Argentina

Before In Cold Blood, there was Operation Massacre.

Stephen Phelan

Poetry

Exhuming Neruda

Did Pinochet's goons murder Pablo Neruda? There was only one way to find out.

Stephen Phelan

Science & Nature

Washed Away

Onagawa: a place in the modern world that had suddenly passed from existence. Japan’s tsunami, five years on.

Stephen Phelan

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