A literary magazine published in Dublin, Profiles explores portraiture in prose and visual art, showcasing contrasting approaches to depicting character. The stories gathered here range around the world, but they retain a strong sense of their Irish provenance, helping to locate Profiles within Ireland’s proud literary publishing heritage.
 
In this issue:

• A would-be poet fails to write any poetry, escapes to Ireland’s Atlantic coast, and blows up his life
• An Argentinian woman wracked with guilt and regret ekes out an existence working as a cleaner at a hotel in County Wexford
• Two unnamed brothers in an unnamed Spanish-speaking town go on an abortive adventure
• An Irish volunteer in Sarajevo is sent to repatriate the body of an Algerian migrant who was killed trying to cross the border
• And a girl working at a fish factory comes to regret her affair with a married man