Fiction

Sweeney Astray

Fiction

Live Differently

Light and Shade

A new collection of critical essays from the Co Wexford novelist Colm Tóibín

Irish Literature

A Righteous Flame

A gift for evoking simple things: light, heat, water, air; food and drink

World Literature

The Aptest Form

Ranking writers is silly. Affinity, love, allure; consolation, seduction, desire; want – these are the words. Yet it cannot be resisted: no one writes a…

Irish Literature

Daddy’s Girl

Laura wants to be a big-time sharp-talking actress like those in the ’40s films noirs she watched with her father. She has loads of parts…

World Literature

Through the Tarmac

In Deborah Levy’s new novel we are left with a sense of boundless complexity, the intertwining of present, future and past, of memory, dream and…