Culture

As Loah releases her debut album, the singer-songwriter talks about her multifaceted career, making rural west Cork her home and embracing her faith

My favourite form of reporting is not the celebrity interview or political profile; it’s approaching ‘people’ in ‘places’ and asking them questions about ‘stuff’

Gripping thrillers, sport memoirs and the best recent fiction to pack in your holiday suitcase

Artist’s work shows humanity’s hope and beauty at ‘an emotional, poignant moment’

The actor saw in herself a poignant parallel with Lucia Joyce. Despondent after her film project about the dancer came to a halt, she has been lured back to performance for Cork Midsummer Festival

Everything you need to know about the former Talking Heads musician’s concert on Sunday, June 7th

Hamnet author’s 10th novel urgently and passionately maps historical change driven by famine, emigration, language loss, secularisation and much more

Compelling novel about hope, dereliction and the unmercifulness of privilege is set in a city that is both recognisable and weirdly unfamiliar

The writer on her housing-crisis novel Somewhere, her collaborative work, and playing Countdown in the pub

Moving meditation on belonging, loneliness; valuable details on life writing; expansive novel from one of India’s finest authors

This South African-set book focuses on three people in the run-up to emancipation day

Structural weaknesses undermine a book that was unfortunately outdated before it was even published

A new work by Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan

Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home by Stefan Al

David Scott’s focus on her work has good intentions, but also sees a missed opportunity