Salman Rushdie: ‘I am stupidly optimistic – it got me through those bad years’
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are joint winners
Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood
Jo Nesbo: ‘The details of a murder don’t really disturb me’
The Norwegian crime writer gets up close and personal with killing in his latest thriller
Rosita Boland: What I’ve learned from 30 years travelling the world
Exclusive extract from Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel
Eileen Battersby: Inquisitive and brilliant, lonely and kind
Authors, colleagues and friends pay tribute to the late Irish Times literary correspondent
Man Booker Prize: Belfast writer Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’
First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007
The English Patient review: Love and loss in the desert fires
From the archive: Eileen Battersby’s review of ‘The English Patient’ by Michael Ondaatje, originally published on September 12th, 1992
Why Michael Ondaatje’s ‘The English Patient’ deserved the Golden Man Booker
Special accolade celebrates 50th anniversary of the literary prize
Deborah Smith: Publishing is an industry, but translation is a community
Sharing the Man Booker International prize is proper recognition for the art form of translation, says translator Deborah Smith, winner of the Man Booker International prize along with with Korean author Han Kang for ‘The Vegetarian’
A Canadian novel about Kerry’s ‘mythic’ Rás Tailteann in the 1950s
Canadian novelist Jane Urquhart, who had a cottage in Kerry for 20 years, has finally written a book set there. What took her so long?
VE Day: Joy in Europe, but worse horrors of WWII were yet to come
Eileen Battersby: Europe’s streets lined with people too exhausted by six years of grief
Brought to Book: Linda Spalding on her literary life
‘I had to remould my brain to write “The Follow”. It involved three trips to Borneo and years of reading and studying and thinking hard about human beings and our place in the natural world’
A series of unsaintly Patricks
With the week that’s in it, read up on the literary characters who take their name, if not their morals, from our patron saint
Meet the new wave of Irish literary novelists
Irish crime and thriller writers have made quite a mark in recent years. Now it’s the turn of a new wave of Irish literary novelists. Five debut writers introduce their books
Writers sort fact from historical fiction at Lismore Castle
The castle is an apt setting for talks on the truth and lies of historical fiction
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