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Gabriel Byrne: I stand there, an intruder in my own past.

Reviewed: Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne

Books • 01 Dec

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: practical and sensible about scene-setting

Review: Little Red and Other Stories Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Book Review • 30 Nov

John Lanchester: hoary tales of mystery and imagination, with delightful hints of leg-pull, wind-up and parody of the great ghost story authors

Reviewed: Reality and other Stories by John Lanchester

Books • 01 Dec

Martin Luther King: delineates two forces between which he finds himself standing

Reviewed: Writing Politics - An Anthology

Books • 25 Nov

Dr Anthony Clare in the early 1960s. (Reproduced by kind permission of Jane Clare.)

Reviewed: Psychiatrist in the Chair - Anthony Clare

Books • 24 Nov

Bust of Balzac by David d'Angers. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Sygma via Getty Images)

Reviewed: Balzac's Lives by Peter Brooks

Books • 30 Nov

Ray D'Arcy: stories invited and they came to him, under the themes Life, Laughter, Lockdown, Love, Little Ones and Loss

Reviewed: A Page From My Life - The Ray D'Arcy Show

Books • 20 Nov

Carlo Gébler views The Decameron in terms of its literary influence as 'an aquifer, hidden underground, without whose moisture nothing will grow' (pic David Barker)

Reviewed: Tales We Tell Ourselves by Carlo Gébler

Books • 19 Nov

Sinéad Gleeson: The premise for The Art of the Glimpse was simple, '100 great already-existing Irish stories.'

Review: The Art of the Glimpse edited by Sinéad Gleeson

Books • 18 Nov

Patricia Racette as Katerina Lvovna Ismailova and John Daszak as Sergei in the English National Opera's production of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at the London Coliseum in 2015.

Reviewed: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov

Books • 13 Nov

The photo call from Cannes Film Festival 2007 for The Man from London, starring Tilda Swinton and directed by Bela Tarr

Reviewed: The Man from London by Georges Simenon

Books • 12 Nov

Dorothy Gallagher: markedly more of a John Prine fan than her late New York intelligentsia husband Ben Sonnenberg

Reviewed: Stories I Forget to Tell You

Books • 11 Nov

James Joyce whose early collection, Dubliners, is represented by An Encounter in Philip Hensher's latest anthology of stories

Reviewed: The Golden Age of British Short Stories

Books • 10 Nov

A large crowd outside the door of Mountjoy prison on the day of Kevin Barry's execution. November 1, 1920

Reviewed: The Darkness Echoing by Gillian O'Brien

Books • 09 Nov

John Creedon with the vintage VW van that took him around Ireland for the RTÉ One series Creedons' Epic East and Creedon's Wild Atlantic Way

Reviewed: That Place We Call Home by John Creedon

Books • 07 Nov

Seosamh Mac Grianna: born into a family of writers, poets and storytellers in the Gaeltacht region of Rann na Feirste in County Donegal

Reviewed: This Road Of Mine - Seosamh Mac Grianna

Books • 06 Nov

Kevin Myers: conflicts across four decades recalled in his new memoir

Reviewed: Burning Heresies by Kevin Myers

Books • 05 Nov

Cellist Vedran Smailovic plays Strauss in the bombed National Library in Sarajevo on September 2 1992

Reviewed: Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden

Books • 04 Nov

William Butler Yeats: Have not poetry and music arisen out of the sounds the enchanters made to help their imagination to enchant?

Reviewed: Yeats Now by Joseph M Hassett

Books • 03 Nov

Richard Nairn: the veteran ecologist and founding director of BirdWatch Ireland on the rearing of his mature oaks.

Book Review: Wild Woods by Richard Nairn

Book Review • 02 Nov

Dermot Bolger: Bolger's unerring focus is on the cultures of shame and secrecy in the title story

Book Review: Secrets Never Told by Dermot Bolger

Dermot bolger • 30 Oct

Aerial shot of the monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise, part of Paul Clements' journey along the Shannon banks.

Reviewed: Shannon Country by Paul Clements

Book Review • 29 Oct

Curtis Sittenfeld: canny observation, sharp sketching and a seam of delightfully mordant humour.

Reviewed: Help Yourself by Curtis Sittenfeld

Books • 28 Oct

Banner with pictures of people who went missing during the Franco dictatorship unveiled during a 2019 Madrid protest coinciding with the 83rd anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War.

Reviewed: The International Brigades by Giles Tremlett

Books • 27 Oct

Reviewed: Love by Roddy Doyle

Books • 24 Oct

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