The Gift
Howard Jacobson on what he got from his Mancunian Jewish upbringing
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A Tonic for Our Times
Margaret Atwood’s astute, sparkling takes on social and literary matters
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A Stay of Time
A tale of quest full of gritty realism, related in Sara Baume’s electric prose
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High Bred Yet Hybrid
A novelistic recreation of the life of the co-author of ‘The Irish RM’
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Where Art Happens
Novelist and critic: the book review as potential art form in itself
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Back to the Future
A magical realist lens on the life of the loyalist village of ‘Ballylack’
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Only Connect
Timothy Morton and Dermot Healy on the end of hierarchies in nature
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Thinking with Theatre
The development of Yeats’s theatre from words to choreography
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Understanding the Bards
A fourteenth-century bardic poet and patronage in medieval Ireland
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The Mystery of Moll
Linguistic paradoxes and the evasion of identity in ‘Moll Flanders’
