Fiction

A Season in Spain

John Banville’s new novel set on the shores of the Bay of Biscay

Irish Literature

McGahern And Tradition

A new study of John McGahern is grounded in a capacious knowledge of his fiction, his reading, his manuscripts and notes, and other critics’ work.…

World Literature

Side Views of the Self

Like another smart New Jersey Jewish boy, Philip Roth, Paul Auster has rendered the texture of American life through reportage, but he is somewhat set…

World Literature

Belonging And Becoming

It would seem that it was in Beckett that he found the literary model for a kind of narrative based on a deconstruction of received…