Naoise Dolan, the literary darling responsible for countless newspaper columns calling out banks with Israeli ties, the “pathetic cleaving” of the UK Labour Party to the far right, and the near-endless hoops of obtaining an autism diagnosis, might feel incredibly grave and serious on paper. But when I speak with her, she is considered, profound, and light in a way one might hope a table-mate at a wedding might be, but rarely is. Dolan strides the lines between serious and non-seriousness gracefully, laughing wryly as she hashes out the intensity of novel writing or deftly pivots between formality and informality…

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