Sara Baume: ‘You realise who you actually want to have around as you age’
The author’s new book centres on her friendship with the artist Mollie Douthit, which became central to her life in an unexpected way
Oasis live in Ireland: How The Irish Times reviewed their first Dublin headline gig and the epic 2009 Slane Castle concert
As the Gallagher brothers reunite for a tour including two dates at Croke Park in 2025, we look back at their most important gigs in Ireland
After a Dance by Bridget O’Connor: Riotous stories set in grimy Irish London
The pages are populated with rogues, addicts and grifters of all genders, whose stasis offers despair, but also a farrago of humour and pathos
Art Monsters and Thunderclap: Looking at art with fresh eyes
Sinéad Gleeson reviews impressive new books on art by Lauren Elkin and Laura Cumming
Drifts: A whirling, kinetic funnel carrying art, philosophers and dogs
Book Review: Any writer who picks up Kate Zambreno’s Drifts will feel a queasy wave of recognition
Approaching Eye Level: The ache of isolation and the miracle of writing
Vivian Gornick’s essays, first published in 1996, centre on aloneness but not loneliness
The Lexicon of Babies, a short story by Sinéad Gleeson
A parable on parenthood by the author of the award-winning essay collection, Constellations
Motherwell: Deborah Orr’s artful and authentic parting words
Book review: The late journalist’s hugely accomplished debut feels as if there was much more to come
Sinéad Gleeson: Rediscovering the shared frequency of music and writing
The writer on creating a world for a new album by her husband’s band, Mount Alaska
Make it Scream, Make it Burn: Essays of compassion and conviction
Book review: Leslie Jamison covers a wide range of subjects but always with empathy and intelligence
Sinéad Gleeson: As a teenager in hospital, I found hope in Frida Kahlo
Artists showed a parallel creative life was possible, one that overshadows patient life
Nine Pints review: a deep dive into blood
Rose George’s engaging guide to blood as ‘a medicine, a lifesaver and a commodity’
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss: the problem with the good old days
Tale of a young woman trapped in her father’s strange archaeological game could be read as a Brexit fable
Certain American States by Catherine Lacey: Tales from limbo
This book of short stories is about in-betweenness, emotionally and geographically
Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso: life, work and family in splintered detail
Author re-examines her old diaries, while continuing to document life in the present