Two Irish writers longlisted for Impac prizeTHE 146-STRONG longlist for the 2009 Impac Dublin International Literary Award was announced in Dublin yesterday and carries …Tue Nov 11 2008 - 00:00
A bewildering tale of murder and delusion in ThailandFICTION: Fieldwork By Mischa Berlinski Atlantic, 317pp, £11Sat Nov 08 2008 - 00:00
SECOND READING: 36Mary By Vladimir Nabokov (1926) - IT IS THE stuff of a minor nightmare - trapped in an elevator with the wrong personSat Nov 08 2008 - 00:00
Charting a shaken AmericaFICTION : A Mercy By Toni Morrison Chatto, 165pp, £15.99Sat Nov 01 2008 - 00:00
Eastwick's coven regroupsFICTION: The Widows of Eastwick By John Updike, Hamish Hamilton, 308pp, £18Sat Oct 25 2008 - 01:00
SECOND READING:34The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (1972) A MIDDLE-AGED daughter, on learning that her father is worried about difficulties…Sat Oct 25 2008 - 01:00
Ardee Baroque Festival - Harmonic turnsCentral to Ardee Baroque Festival is Irish Baroque Orchestra's continuing participationMon Oct 20 2008 - 01:00
Lifting the roof with sacred and secularThe respected New York Polyphony ensemble will sing glorious compositions from Tudor England at Ardee's Baroque Festival next…Mon Oct 20 2008 - 01:00
A Japanese take on fear and obsessionFICTION : The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa , translated by Stephen Snyder Harvill Secker, 164pp, £10,00Sat Oct 18 2008 - 01:00
Adiga surprise winner as Barry misses out on BookerONCE THE dust settled after the shortlist became known, and quiet dust it was, this year's Man Booker prize never seemed likely…Wed Oct 15 2008 - 01:00
A clever cartoon for grown-upsFICTION: The White Tiger By Aravind Adiga Atlantic, 321pp, £10.99Sat Oct 11 2008 - 01:00
An epic tale of the high seasFICTION: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh, John Murray, 471pp, £18Sat Sept 20 2008 - 01:00
SECOND READING:29The Expedition of Humphry Clinker By Tobias Smollett (1771) IT IS A family holiday like no otherSat Sept 20 2008 - 01:00
SECOND READING: 28The Heart of the Matter By Graham Greene (1948) RELENTLESS HUMIDITY, suspicion, malaria, religious doubt, despair, cultural …Sat Sept 13 2008 - 01:00
Slices of madness from a Brazilian masterSHORT STORY MANY WRITERS want to be clever, some are, but few, very few, are as clever as a singular Brazilian-born Joaquim …Sat Sept 13 2008 - 01:00
Second Reading 27A Lost Lady By Willa Cather (1923) YOUNG NIEL HERBERT appears to have been born serious; he is a studious boy who enjoys books…Sat Sept 06 2008 - 01:00
Anguish in AfghanistanFICTION: WAR LEAVES DEADLY secrets and, in their wake, grieving survivors seeking answersSat Aug 30 2008 - 01:00
Testimony of a son who remembers everythingFICTION EVER GOT TRAPPED in an elevator? For a very long time? You could do worse, far worse than being stuck with Jasper Dean…Sat Aug 23 2008 - 01:00
Darkness fills the days and nights of AugustMan in the Dark By Paul Auster Faber, 180pp. £14Sat Aug 16 2008 - 01:00
SECOND READING: 23Coming Up for Air George Orwell (1939) GEORGE BOWLING, fat, 45, and far from stupid, pauses to consider his suburban London …Sat Aug 09 2008 - 01:00
An enduring story of loveFrom A to X - A Story in Letters By John Berger Verso, 197pp. £12Sat Aug 09 2008 - 01:00
Book ReviewsSECOND READING: 22 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald (1925): A POOR BOY falls in love with a rich girlSat Aug 02 2008 - 01:00
An Irishman's 'great American novel' early favourite to win Booker prizeTwo Irish authors, Joseph O'Neill and Sebastian Barry, are on the Man Booker longlist - along with five first novels and perennial…Wed Jul 30 2008 - 01:00
Scenes from a heartless marriageFICTION: IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, one of those old afternoon movies, featuring stilted actors who specialise in long, meaningful…Sat Jul 26 2008 - 01:00
SECOND READING: 21We, By Yevgeny Zamyatin (1921) A MATHEMATICIAN, D-503 is engaged in an important project, the construction of the Integral, …Sat Jul 26 2008 - 01:00
SECOND READING: 20Thérèse Raquin By Emile Zola (1867) MADAME RAQUIN had devoted her life to keeping her sickly son, Camille, aliveSat Jul 19 2008 - 01:00
Book ReviewsSECOND READING: 19 The Last September A LIVELY YOUNG GIRL becomes aware of the tensions between what she wants and the social…Sat Jul 12 2008 - 01:00
Siege mentalityFICTION: IRONY DANCES through these vibrant, visual pages originally written in Communist Albania in 1968, irony and barbed…Sat Jul 12 2008 - 01:00
A life cast in loneliness and passionFICTION: IGNORE THE STRANGE, somewhat bizarre title; this is an intriguingly impressionistic, lyrical little work, one in which…Sat Jul 05 2008 - 01:00
A Handful of Dust By Evelyn Waugh (1934)SECOND READING: 18 LIFE AT Hetton Abbey is sufficiently content for most of the London set to envy the Lasts; Tony Last is devoted…Sat Jul 05 2008 - 01:00
Dublin celebrates its Handel connectionTHE GERMAN composer who introduced Italian opera to London, and who also brought his Messiah to Dublin, is being celebrated in…Mon Apr 14 2008 - 01:00
Dissolving into an everyday world behind the headlines and beyond the barricadesFICTION Let it be Morning By Sayed Kashua, translated by Miriam Shlesinger Black Cat, 270pp. $13Sat Apr 12 2008 - 01:00
A subtle search for the truthThe novels of David Park are unabashedly polemical, fiercely honest tales of human weakness, but the unassuming author likes …Wed Apr 02 2008 - 01:00
Lassus Scholars choir to sing in WestminsterAN IRISH choir is deputising this weekend for one of the world's major choirs in Westminster Cathedral, London, tomorrow.Fri Mar 28 2008 - 00:00
An unlikely hero in the coldest warFiction: The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles By Roy Jacobsen, translated by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw John Murray, 200pp. £12Sat Feb 23 2008 - 00:00
A waiter and almost a gentlemanFiction Erneste is a waiter, "a reserved, rather pallid man of medium height and indeterminate age with the impeccable manners…Sat Feb 16 2008 - 00:00
An Irishwoman's DiarySunday morning service at St Peter's Church of Ireland in Drogheda is drawing to a closeMon Feb 11 2008 - 00:00
A dark family sagaFiction: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By Junot Díaz Faber, 335pp. £12Sat Feb 02 2008 - 00:00
First poet to win Cunningham MedalThe Cunningham Medal was established by the Royal Irish Academy in 1789 in recognition of outstanding contributions to scholarship…Tue Jan 29 2008 - 00:00
An Irishwoman's DiarySnow reflecting off the deep old walls framing the little windows made the room seem brighter, as bright as on a summer's day…Sat Jan 26 2008 - 00:00
Opportunity lostBiography: Shaped by the Renaissance and the Reformation, and involved in revolution and a republic that beheaded a king, John…Sat Jan 19 2008 - 00:00
Making every word workFiction: 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth By Xiaolu Guo, translated by Rebecca Morris and Pamela Casey Chatto, 202pp. £12Sat Jan 12 2008 - 00:00
Tale of a very cool killerFiction: Detective Story By Imre Kertész, translated by Tim Wilkinson Harvill Secker, 113pp. £12Sat Jan 05 2008 - 00:00
Major exhibition of Turner works to open in DublinLate one evening in 1840, a young man sat down, eager to confide in his diaryMon Dec 31 2007 - 00:00
