Joe CollinsOct 5, 20237 min read'I Never Thought My Son Would Watch Pornography'It was just over a decade ago that was listening to the radio when I heard this line being spoken for the first time by a mother who was...
Joe CollinsSep 14, 20204 min readThe Things We CarryTim O’Brien’s 1990 collection of linked, short stories (‘The Things They Carried’) is based on his experience as a young soldier in...
Joe CollinsSep 14, 20203 min readAuden, Breughel and the Particularity of SufferingBreughel’s well-known painting, ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’, is generally interpreted as being a study on the pride of humankind,...