Colin Sheridan: Death makes liars of us all — canonising Glen Hansard denies his humanity
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Celebrity deaths expose our tendency to romanticise public figures while overlooking the complexity and contradictions that made them human
The author discusses her story “The Blight.”
The author of “Cool Machine” has become one of our most important writers without ever seeming to stretch for importance.
Fiction
With “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.
An Irish debut novelist is among the 13 writers longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize, one of the world's leading literary awards for fiction.
When the angel came to Craig, he was seven, squatting in the outhouse at camp.
My Cultural Life
Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s “Trilogy About the Boy” is set in the remote Westfjords but its ambition is universal.
Anthony Cummins reviews
There are two kinds of people in the world, said Søren Kierkegaard: those who write, and those who don’t. Nunez, best known as a novelist, writes up a storm with her first story, “...
'All Them Dogs', the debut novel by Dublin-based author Djamel White, has been selected with 12 other titles for the Booker Prize 2026 Longlist.
Fiction
28-year-old Djamel White is the youngest author to feature on the longlist with his first novel All Them Dogs.
As she prepares to publish her 21st book, Cecelia Ahern talks to Kathy Donaghy about the joy of creating, why AI has no place in fiction and how the removal of a love lock bridge i...
In its skewering of London’s literary egos, Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House takes a step away from her previous parent-dominated novels, but it too is told by a middle-aged woman...
A teacher’s private anxieties are subtly combined with political events in this Booker-listed tale set in coastal MassachusettsArtie Dam is a much-loved history teacher from coasta...
Siblings Marion and Robert-John Connolly live on an island in the fictional Neagh Archipelago, nicknamed the Ark, a smattering of islands in Lough Neagh exposed by the partial drai...
A teenage boy navigates adolescence and the traumatic loss of his mother in this poignant coming-of-age novel set in rural IrelandSomething is happening to literary time. In the la...
Aus dem streng katholischen Irland der 70er ins düstere London der 90er: Megan Nolan erzählt von einem Todesfall und den Tricks der Boulevardpresse. mehr...
Ordinary People Like Us is Kelly Ana Morey’s final novel, published this week on the anniversary of her death. Catherine Chidgey writes about what it was like to complete the unfin...
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