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AbortionJuly 1, 2022
How Paula Rego’s Abortion Pictures Changed the Conversation
When well-meaning critics described her subjects as downtrodden, Rego shot back, “These women are not victims.”
Margaret Spillane
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FilmNovember 3, 2020
Why You Should Be Watching the Film ‘Z’ Right Now
Costa Gavras’s classic antifascist thriller reminds us that the moment of reckoning constitutes not the end of the story, but the beginning.
Margaret Spillane
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CultureMay 6, 2020
Eavan Boland, Pillar of Irish Poetry: 1944–2020
She helped redefine the literary canon to include women’s voices and those on the margins.
Margaret Spillane
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LGBTQ ActivismJune 16, 2017
Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s Fortunate Son
He’s the country’s first openly gay prime minister and first of South Asian heritage—but he offers little relief from the harsh austerity budgets that have done so much harm.
Margaret Spillane
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FilmJuly 8, 2016
How the US and Israel Almost Caused Global Computer Catastrophe
In Zero Days, Alex Gibney examines the terrifying potential of cyberwarfare.
Margaret Spillane
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EuropeMay 27, 2015
How the Irish Became the World’s Leading Gay Activists
Defying conventional wisdom, the huge win by the Yes Equality campaign involved young and old, rural and urban, Catholic and non-Catholic voters.
Margaret Spillane
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PoetrySeptember 4, 2013
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Fine ArtAugust 1, 2011
The Democratic Paintbrush of Lucian Freud
Freud made the case through his art that no body type inherently possesses more capacity to compel than another.
Margaret Spillane
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Gender and SexualityApril 27, 2011
Tony Kushner’s Intelligent Homosexuals
Without turning into sentimental left-wing pageantry, Kushner’s new play illuminates radicalism and makes art of sectarian dreams and failures.
Margaret Spillane
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CongressJanuary 21, 2011
Say Goodnight, Joe Lieberman
The senator’s ideological shape-shifting has fallen out of favor.
Bruce Shapiro and Margaret Spillane