Robert Kiely's debut collection is a brilliant and urgently contemporary appeal to the reader.
Criticism 9th September 2020
Mieko Kawakami's latest is a novel of uncertainty, absence, and bodily obsession.
Criticism 27th August 2020
Nathalie Legér's blend of novel, art history and memoir is a study in 'to-be-looked-at-ness'.
Criticism 12th August 2020
Emily S. Cooper finds a quiet beauty in Kathryn Scanlan's spare, unflinching stories.
Criticism 30th June 2020
Adania Shibli's third novel, translated by Elisabeth Jaquette, considers the implications of historiography under occupation.
Criticism 11th June 2020
Golnoosh Nour's short story collection is an 'inescapably political' exploration of queerness and national identity.
Criticism 26th May 2020
Caleb Klaces' experimental blend of poetry and prose describes the state of new fatherhood with a radical note of tenderness.
Criticism 27th April 2020
Lars Iyer's latest philosophical novel is a “paean to those languorous summer afternoons, on the cusp of adulthood, when time stretches to eternity.”
Criticism 9th April 2020
Speaking from the epicentre of destruction of a civilisation, Walter Benjamin's essays express a deep concern for the state of literature and society.
Criticism 27th January 2020
Caelainn Hogan’s new book documents the 'shame-industrial complex' of mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene laundries, a system that reached into every nook and cranny of Irish society.
Criticism 16th December 2019
Ben Lerner's third novel goes back to the 1990s to search for the roots of contemporary crises in language and masculinity.
Criticism 2nd December 2019
Stephen Sexton's debut collection is 'a beautiful, vital, generous work of art.'
Criticism 29th October 2019
Anne Boyer's writing is a reckoning with the facts of a body, an inquiry into a situation we spend our lives trying to avoid.
Criticism 8th October 2019
Lucy Sweeney Byrne's debut collection is, at its core, a book of squandered yearning.
Criticism 30th September 2019
The first collection of Maxim Osipov's stories to appear in English sparks with acerbic insight into the daily challenge of being an ordinary person.
Criticism 4th September 2019
The stories collected in this new anthology, edited by Lucy Caldwell, reveal a new grammar in Irish fiction.
Criticism 27th August 2019
War, death, and the act of witnessing – the world in Ilya Kaminsky's second collection is anything but silent.
Criticism 2nd July 2019
Skilfully-drawn characters and complex emotional detail bump up against formal experimentation in Adrian Duncan's debut novel.
Criticism 18th June 2019
A self without a portrait; a portrait without a self: Kevin Breathnach’s innovative debut collection of essays hesitates between the two.
Criticism 27th May 2019
Yu Miri's subtle novel about a man who haunts a Tokyo park is a deft and insightful look at the character and contradictions of modern Japan.
Criticism 8th May 2019
Gerald Murnane's obsessive and idiosyncratic novels have, for almost fifty years, documented 'a literary mind calmly tracing its involutions towards their creative and spiritual source.'
Criticism 24th April 2019
Rachael Allen's forceful debut collection pushes open the cracks in the structures which govern our lives, and interrogates the very mechanisms of marginalisation.
Criticism 9th April 2019
A posthumous collection of Lucia Berlin's unpublished stories constitutes a curious and exciting middle-ground between fiction and autobiography.
Criticism 26th March 2019
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