Republic of Shame

Criticism

16th December 2019

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.

The Topeka School

Criticism

2nd December 2019

Ben Lerner's third novel goes back to the 1990s to search for the roots of contemporary crises in language and masculinity.

If All The World And Love Were Young

Criticism

29th October 2019

Stephen Sexton's debut collection is 'a beautiful, vital, generous work of art.'

Serotonin

Criticism

21st October 2019

Michel Houellebecq's latest novel once again explores his classic themes of depression, desolation, and decay in contemporary Europe.

The Undying

Criticism

8th 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.

Paris Syndrome

Criticism

30th September 2019

Lucy Sweeney Byrne's debut collection is, at its core, a book of squandered yearning.

Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Stories

Criticism

4th 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.

Being Various: New Irish Short Stories

Criticism

27th August 2019

The stories collected in this new anthology, edited by Lucy Caldwell, reveal a new grammar in Irish fiction.

Oval

Criticism

15th August 2019

The particular promises and contradictions of the Berlin art-world are examined in Elvia Wilk's dystopian, and yet all-too-relatable, debut novel.