Killian Fox

Dublin

Writer at Freelance

Writes for the Observer and elsewhere. Previously: The Gannet. Gmail: killianfox. @killianfox0.bsky.social

Articles

Julie Lin’s aunties are her toughest critics

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Killian Fox

Recipes from the rising star’s debut cookbook Portrait by Amit LennonFood Photography by Liz SeabrookIn 2011, Julie Lin made a note to self on Facebook: “New mission in life,” she wrote in a status update on 4 December: “be Nigella Lawson.” At the time, she was working in retail in Glasgow and teaching piano and violin while channelling most of her creative energies into cooking dinner parties for friends.
‘It’s our duty to make Gaza’s stories immortal’

1 month ago | msn.com | Killian Fox

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Journalist Ahmed Alnaouq: ‘It’s our duty to make Gaza’s stories immortal’

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Killian Fox

On 22 October 2023, an Israeli airstrike hit Ahmed Alnaouq’s home in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killing 21 members of his family, including his 75-year-old father, two brothers, three sisters and all of their children. At the time, Alnaouq was living in London, where he works as a journalist and human rights activist. “It crushed me,” he says of the attack. Unable to return home, he could only watch helplessly from afar and grieve alone.
On my radar: Nell Zink’s cultural highlights

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Killian Fox

Nell Zink was born in California in 1964 and grew up in rural Virginia. Before becoming a published novelist in her 50s, she worked a variety of odd jobs including bricklayer, technical writer and secretary, also running a postpunk zine. In 2014, with the help of Jonathan Franzen, she published her debut novel The Wallcreeper, followed closely by Mislaid, which was longlisted for a National Book Award.
The big picture: a Chad gymnast scores top marks for determination

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Killian Fox

The wall behind her is pockmarked and worn. She’s barefoot against a hard, cracked floor. And yet Achta Derib’s pose in this photograph by Antonio López Díaz, a finalist in the professional sports category at the Sony world photography awards, suggests reserves of determination that will carry her across continents to perform at the highest levels of her sport. For Díaz, who has been documenting her journey since 2019, Derib’s story “stands as a symbol of resilience”.
George the Poet’s cultural highlights

1 month ago | msn.com | Killian Fox

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On my radar: George the Poet’s cultural highlights

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Killian Fox

Born George Mpanga in north-west London in 1991, George the Poet is a spoken-word artist, author and podcast host. He studied politics, psychology and sociology at King’s College, Cambridge and is now doing a PhD at UCL about the economic and cultural potential of black music. Aged 22 he signed with Island Records and released an EP before stepping away from the music industry. His award-winning podcast, Have You Heard George’s Podcast?, launched in 2018.
Note perfect: Ed Atkins’s daily Post-it drawings - in pictures

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Killian Fox

In 2020, the English artist Ed Atkins started drawing on Post-it notes and sticking them to his daughter’s school lunchbox. As well as “little hellos”, they were also, amid the power-down of the pandemic, “a way for me to achieve something every day”, says Atkins. Some of the drawings are cute if a bit creepy – a smiley-faced ghost, a bell lifted to reveal a foetal human underneath – while others involving axes and claws might induce nightmares in adults, let alone children.
Michael Lewis and John Lanchester: ‘Trump is a trust-destroying machine’

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Killian Fox

In late 2023, as the US presidential election was heaving into view, the author Michael Lewis called up six writers he admired – five Americans and one Briton – and asked if they’d like to contribute to an urgent new series he was putting together for the Washington Post. At the time, Lewis was hearing talk that if Donald Trump got back into power, his administration would unleash a programme of cuts that would rip the federal government to shreds. Lewis decided to launch a pre-emptive strike.
Sebastián Bruno brings an outsider’s eye to a wedding in Cardiff

2 months ago | msn.com | Killian Fox

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