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“... and Mal, the hero, a friendship is struck up which reveals other sides to both boys’ characters. Patterson explores the consequences of facing the other tribe and finding it both human and vital; the nightmare of the novel lies in the recognition that the community in which it is set is retreating again into the haven of tribalism and isolation. Mal’s ...”

“... picked up by Susan McKay are real, but they often attach to the scepticism and mistrust that in Glenn Patterson’s The Last Irish Question comes out in wry drolleries about ‘the shamrock side of the house’. Patterson explores the way the pandemic was used to further divisions between North and South, nationalist ...”

“... Birmingham’s calculating ‘Bull’ Connor to Alabama’s incorrigible racist governor, John Patterson. But Arsenault is too good a historian to truck in the simple binaries of good versus evil – and particularly of non-violence versus violence. No dualism has shaped the history of the American civil rights movement more than civil rights v. black ...”