10th March 2021
If a Kevin Barry character declares themselves a romantic, they’re generally headed for trouble.
24th February 2021
Steve McQueen’s films are steeped in the political, and in the complicated humanity and inhumanity of ordinary people pushed to the extraordinary.
10th February 2021
To watch Hilary Mantel go to work on the world is one of contemporary literature’s unalloyed pleasures.
21st January 2021
Derek Mahon's collection is the culmination of a life dedicated to language, the final word from an extraordinary talent.
25th November 2020
Doireann Ní Ghríofa's 'exhilarating' prose debut investigates the inherited script of motherhood and the occluded history of Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonnaill.
10th November 2020
In her latest exploration of racial imaginaries in the US, Claudia Rankine stresses the importance of difficult conversations in the face of racist state violence.
30th October 2020
Caitlín Doherty follows some mystical threads through recent occult-inspired poetry and publishing.
23rd October 2020
Emma Cline's exquisitely detailed work of social observation falls back on familiar tropes, allowing some characters more complexity than others.
9th September 2020
Robert Kiely's debut collection is a brilliant and urgently contemporary appeal to the reader.
27th August 2020
Mieko Kawakami's latest is a novel of uncertainty, absence, and bodily obsession.