Bill Nevins

Bill Nevins attended the Santa Fe International Literary Festival, which drew about 20,000 attendees to the Santa Fe Community Convention Center in New Mexico, from May 15–17.

Bill Nevins reviews punk-rock band Dropkick Murphys recent show in Denver, Colorado, where the band reprised the classic Irish resistance ballad, “Men Behind the Wire", referencing the ICE raids in Minneapolis and the ravages of US President Donald Trump’s onslaught against migrants and people of colour.

Bill Nevins travelled to New Orleans for the Folk Alliance International Conference in January.

Poet, musician and cultural advocate Manuel González has worked at the intersections of poetry, education and social change, in detention centres, classrooms and community spaces throughout New Mexico, writes Bill Nevins.

New Mexico-based songwriter Eliza Gilkyson's new album Dark Ages is a magnificent, politically charged, angry slow-burn, writes Bill Nevins.

Veteran journalist and best-selling author TJ English tells the life story of Augusto Guillermo “Willy” Falcon, who grew his Florida-based gang Los Muchachos (The Boys) into a major international drug-smuggling operation netting profits in the billions. Bill Nevins reviews.

In War Game, a bipartisan group of real-life defense, intelligence and elected policymakers in the United States confront a political coup scenario in the wake of a contested presidential election. Bill Nevins reviews.

Bill Nevins reviews Kneecap, a semi-autobiographical film about the West Belfast rap/hip-hop trio of the same name.

Bill Nevins revews Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize-winning novel, set in a near-future Ireland, where fascists have come to power.

Opposition to a 30-day ban on the carrying of firearms in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, drew opposition from gun owners and the far right, including threats against the state governor, her family and staff, reports Bill Nevins.

Bill Nevins reviews Fintan O’Toole's 2022 book, We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland.

Bill Nevins’ interviewed the great Scottish socialist activist-bard Dick Gaughan back in 1996, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he played a sold-out concert.