We Are The Weather: we know and care about the planet but still refuse to actJonathan Safran Foer simultaneously tries to bring us out of the present moment and back into itThu Oct 24 2019 - 06:00
Republic of Shame: Read this book nowBook review: Caelainn Hogan gives voice to the survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homesSun Sept 29 2019 - 06:00
Talking to Strangers: Malcolm Gladwell at his bestBook Review: New Yorker writer takes a fire poker to our fixed set of assumptions by examining why society is so polarised and what we can do about itMon Sept 16 2019 - 06:00
Inland by Téa Obreht just might be the literary event of 2019Book review: I disliked this on first read, then was absolutely blown awayWed Aug 21 2019 - 06:00
How to Forget: Kate Mulgrew achingly details her parents’ sufferingBook review: The Star Trek actor spares nothing in this memoir about caring for her parentsWed Aug 07 2019 - 06:00
The Porpoise review: A chilling story ventures into dangerous landsMark Haddon’s new novel is a reworking of a lesser-known Shakespeare playSat May 11 2019 - 06:00
Being Various review: Irish life from many anglesNew collection of short stories features everything from crime fiction to young adult, magical realism and new modernismSat May 04 2019 - 06:00
How to Fail review: true stories told with humilityPodcaster and novelist Elizabeth Day’s failure-filled book is gloriously life-affirmingSat Apr 06 2019 - 06:00
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession: A simple pleasureThis debut is decidedly not woke and not cool but its message about life is worth heedingSat Mar 23 2019 - 00:00
Charlie Savage review: Roddy Doyle is fluent in north-DublineseRoddy Doyle’s character sketches use humour that is never mocking, never overstatedSat Mar 16 2019 - 06:00
Leonard and Hungry Paul review: Dorks in a time of pithy millennialsIt’s been called ‘up-lit’ but Rónán Hession’s debut is more geekily nuanced than thatSat Mar 02 2019 - 06:00
Happening review: An investigation of ‘the reality of an unforgettable event’Annie Ernaux’s indiscriminate telling is a real attempt at truthSat Feb 16 2019 - 06:00
‘I spent my time at a desk, writing. Or not writing’Niamh Donnelly went to the Tyrone Guthrie Centre with the weight of failure and ambitionSat Nov 17 2018 - 06:00
Why I love . . . cross-country running‘It will be painful, it will be arduous, it will hurt and it will be glorious’ – Niamh DonnellySat Oct 27 2018 - 06:00
‘I cannot abide the tyranny of the bill bully’Sound Off: Some seem to hate this outrageous notion of people paying only for what they orderSat Jun 16 2018 - 06:00
Hennessy New Irish Writing: How to float by Niamh DonnellyTwo girls drift through a polluted paradise in this month’s winning Hennessy New Irish Writing short story by Niamh DonnellySat Nov 28 2015 - 00:46