Consent

The past is another country: Ripeness, by Sarah Moss, reviewed

14 June 2025 9:00 am

The voice of teenage Edith caring for her pregnant sister in Italy alternates with that of her elderly self in contemporary Ireland in a story of identity, belonging and consent

The Greeks and rape

25 October 2014 9:00 am

A footballer serves his sentence for rape, insisting on his innocence. Debate rages whether he should play again. To us,…

The problem with a wider definition of rape

6 September 2014 9:00 am

When Mary Jane Mowat remarked recently that rape conviction statistics would not improve ‘until women stop getting so drunk,’ the…