The "Dublin Review"

The twenty-fifth quarterly instalment of "The Dublin Review" contains more of the best new writing from Ireland and elsewhere: essays, criticism, fiction and reportage. Issue number 25, appearing in early December, includes: Lia Mills: A diagnosis of cancer; In the hangar with the Shannon Five: Harry Browne on an unlikely legal drama; Vona Groarke reports from the home front of the 'war on terror'; 'The Bombing of Vadelaincourt': May Guinness' account of a Great War atrocity; 'Number 9': A story by Molly McCloskey; George O'Brien's Lisbon diary; and 'The Mental': Eibhear Walshe on growing up in the shadow of a mental asylum.