Joseph O’Neill

1 month ago | nybooks.com | Daniel Drake |Joseph O’Neill

In the weeks since Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the president and his party have embarked on a concerted campaign to unmake the American government.

Nov 9, 2024 | nybooks.com | Daniel Drake |Joseph O’Neill

In Joseph O’Neill’s first essay in our pages, he warned readers that “the Republican Party enjoyed a mystifying presumption of legitimacy,” contrasted with “the curious timidity of Democrats.” In that instance, he was describing the 2000 presidential election fiasco in Florida, but he has made clear in his subsequent writing to what extent that dynamic has dogged American politics ever since: from an article about Democrats’ failure to win statewide elections—“Their core mission is to...

Nov 8, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Joseph O’Neill

. Jun. 2024. 12:32 hrs. ISBN 9780593868577. $76. F COPY ISBN Multi-award–winning O’Neill’s ( Netherland) latest braids together two stories—one of a Pittsburgh writing collective and another of a search for a gifted teenage soccer player. A technical writer, Mark Wolfe works at the collective.

Oct 3, 2024 | nybooks.com | Joseph O’Neill

Vice-presidential debates are notoriously inconsequential. The Vance–Walz back-and-forth will almost certainly make no difference to the outcome of the November election. But Governor Walz’s mostly, and uncharacteristically, emollient performance on Tuesday night, in which he pretended that Vance was a good-faith policy discussant rather than a malevolent threat to American democracy, embodied a significant rhetorical and tactical change in the Harris–Walz campaign.

Aug 7, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Joseph O’Neill |Tim Parks

Life,​ for the narrators of Joseph O’Neill’s five novels, is experienced as a series of reversals as unexpected as they are humiliating. James Jones, the protagonist of This Is the Life (1991), once served as a pupil barrister to celebrity QC Michael Donovan. He had thought he was in line for a position at the chambers, but was overlooked at the end of the pupillage. Donovan didn’t put his name forward and years later fails even to recognise him at a cocktail party.