Literature

The First of a New Genus

Literature

Wild Child

Early to late: questions about the conventional Jane Austen timeline

Irish Literature

The Hard Life

When he agreed to allow her to be his biographer Samuel Beckett told Deirdre Bair that his friends would help her and his enemies would…

Irish Literature

Loving and Losing

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne has written a moving memoir of her affair and subsequent marriage with the Swedish folklorist Bo Almqvist, who died in 2013. Life…

World Literature

The Ascent of Women

Charles Darwin assesses the ‘mental power’ of men and women

Irish Literature

Sons and Mothers

Writers and their mothers: Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin