SHORT STORY OF THE WEEK: “Currency”, by Stephen O’Toole. Achingly bored of good behaviour, a tired and emotional Elizabeth masterminds her exit.
BOOKS FROM THE VAULTS: The latest work on Bill Hicks exposes him as an anti-corporate fanatic, UFO devotee and gun fetishist. But what he would really have hated is being described as the lost saviour of stand-up.
IDEAS: L. Gavin on the ghost of sexism that lurks in fiction writing.
IDEAS: Is love (L-U-V) past its sell-by date? Hannah McGill thinks she’s better off without it, but Paul McLean skips through a luscious meadow of sun-kissed buttercups, hand in hand with his gey bonnie lass.
