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O’Donnell brings the spare intensity of her award-winning short stories to her first novel, a compulsive tale of one woman’s escape intensified by Dublin’s housi […]

‘If he likes it so much, then let him go,’ says author

Author whose work examined the links between emotions, behaviour and location, notably in his novel Bleeding LondonDuring 2014, hundreds of photographers, amateurs […]

The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive orderJulianne Moore has s […]

Repetition mounts to unnerving auditory effect as a trapped fly makes a life-or-death bid to escapeThatIt would be better not to be
that fly — the fly that sees
i […]

The TV reporter’s struggles with depression and the suicide of his father, whose own father killed himself, prompt this incisive, highly personal i […]

This courageous, melancholy memoir, about the author’s struggle to reconcile his faith with his sexuality, argues that homophobia is a cultural phenomenon, not a r […]

Once confined to a dark, dusty corner of the internet, incels are becoming increasingly mainstream as harrowing news stories about murder sprees and manifestos […]

I read six books this week. 14. First State of Being. Erin Entrada Kelly. 2024. 272 pages.
[Source: Library] [4 stars, Newbery Medal, MG Speculative Fiction, MG […]

   15. Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life. James Curtis. 2022. 810 pages. [Source: Library] [5 stars, adult nonfiction, biography]First sentence: The man in the pork […]

The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer; The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths; Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito; The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha; The Weekenders […]

Growing older, culinary mishaps and meeting JFK are among the subjects in this fiercely funny collection of essays, narrated by the authorThere is a lot about […]

Lovers living out their Notting Hill fantasies, shy readers whose eyes met at a book club … readers give us a tour of the romance section for Valentine’s Day […]

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Golden Hour’ by Lorcán Black from his collection ‘Strange Husbandry’.
The post Friday Poem – ‘The Golden Hour’ by Lorcán Black […]

The poet on his early love of horror and the transformative power of Thom GunnMy earliest reading memory
A memory of being read to, rather than of reading. Every […]

The novelist and reporter delivers a passionate indictment of complacent liberal responses to Israel’s brutal campaign“Where’s the Palestinian Martin Luther King? […]

The novelist uses perfume to conjure scenes from a working-class upbringing in this funny, bleak memoirWhen Adelle Stripe was 23, she got a job working on a sex […]