Maija Mäkelä has released two albums under the name Maija Sofia; Bath Time, which was nominated for the Choice Music Prize, and True Love. She has toured extensively, both on her own and as support for artists including Sharon Van Etten, Julian Baker and Mega Bog. She also composes music for film and sound-art installations in collaboration with visual artists. Her poetry has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Banshee, Poetry Ireland Review, Berlin Lit and elsewhere, and she writes essays a...| International Literature Festival Dublin
“Exile Economics is a smart, vivid and humane account of the way the world really works – and thedangers that now face us all.” Tim Harford, How to Make the World Add Up| International Literature Festival Dublin
“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” Eliezer Yudkowsky| International Literature Festival Dublin
In the immediate aftermath of the invasion, Western leaders weaponised economic tools in a world-changing financial experiment. The end goal was to damage the Russian economy and sap the strength from Putin’s war machine. Veteran journalist Stephanie Baker has written the essential insider account of how this cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia is changing the face of global trade. Mobilising white-collar-crime investigators and experts on international law, she explores how the W...| International Literature Festival Dublin
“A multilayered story of the many emotional and psychic ravages of war.” NPR Publishers Weekly on Diaries of War| International Literature Festival Dublin
