Steve McQueen’s films are steeped in the political, and in the complicated humanity and inhumanity of ordinary people pushed to the extraordinary.
To watch Hilary Mantel go to work on the world is one of contemporary literature’s unalloyed pleasures.
"What do you think of, I said to my husband that evening, when you think of Monica Lewinsky?"
Satanic panic, screen violence and Irish doorways to Hell: Róisín Kiberd meets legendary game designer John Romero.
A troubled investigator exposes deeds too wicked to speak of in Mike McCormack's story for cold nights and guilty consciences.
An essay about Ludwig the cat, and the writer who lives with him.
"What do you think of, I said to my husband that evening, when you think of Monica Lewinsky?"
Michelle Coyne's anaesthetised protagonist falls into dangerous, freeing obsession on an Icelandic holiday.
A despairing brother is roused by Mattie Brennan's unforgettable Mannions on a hard-drinking train journey from Galway to Dublin.
A fugitive returns to his belligerent, brilliant uncle in Ciarán Folan's story of hard men, lost talent, and twisted alliances.
Everything changes for a young dealer tasked with selling diesel-laced hash in Aoibheann McCann's tough and grungy Galway.
David Tierney imagines a ravaged Galway, where a farmer returns to her land to find defiance and hope and an unexpected adversary.
Cathy Sweeney's stories have already attracted a band of fanatical devotees, and this first collection is as marvellous as we could have hoped for. A unique imagination, a brilliant debut. — Kevin Barry
2nd November 2020
22nd October 2020
5th August 2020
"What do you think of, I said to my husband that evening, when you think of Monica Lewinsky?"
Satanic panic, screen violence and Irish doorways to Hell: Róisín Kiberd meets legendary game designer John Romero.
A troubled investigator exposes deeds too wicked to speak of in Mike McCormack's story for cold nights and guilty consciences.