A meditation on time and the pressure to use it productively
The letters of an American woman living in wartime Northern Ireland
An exploration of the complexities of identity and relationships
Poems of love and loss articulated in a spirit of quiet affirmation
Leslie McFarlane: the career of a prolific and successful hack writer
The reputation of ‘Ulysses’ in Ireland during its first century
The ‘soft power’ of promoting the literary heritage of Ireland abroad
Howard Jacobson on what he got from his Mancunian Jewish upbringing
Margaret Atwood’s astute, sparkling takes on social and literary matters
The Watergate affair and the cover-up that brought down Richard Nixon
Reading the cookbook as an instance of self-expression and social display.