Hugh Kenner

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Samuel Beckett being at a rehearsal of Waiting for Godot in Paris, 1961. Photograph: Roger Viollet via Getty
Failing better: The afterlife of Samuel Beckett’s best-known phrases
  • Stage
  • February 1, 2021, 05:00

“Waiting for Godot.” “I must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” For a writer often seen as difficult and dismal,(...)

The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien, edited by Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper
  • Books
  • August 24, 2013, 01:00

Most of the material collected in The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien is not, in any sense, new. But for many readers, familiar only with his novels an(...)