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Lisa McInerney: the novelist examines the highly-lucrative K-Pop phenomenon in her revealing essay

Reviewed: The Stinging Fly: Summer 2020

Books • 7 hrs

Poet and memoirist Gerald Dawe in his Belfast stomping ground (Pic: Bobby Hanvey)

Reviewed: Looking Through You by Gerald Dawe

Books • 22 Sep

Patrick Freyne: his best friend reveals a general lack of belief in the project (Pic: Chris Maddaloni)

Review: OK, Lets Do Your Stupid Idea by Patrick Freyne

Books • 21 Sep

Federico Garcia Lorca: The writer was executed by a Nationalist firing squad in the early months of the Spanish Civil War.

Reviewed: Deep Song: The Life & Work of Lorca

Books • 17 Sep

Reviewed: The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Books • 15 Sep

The then Prince Felipe of Spain and his father King Juan Carlos at the abdication ceremony at the Royal Palace, Madrid June 18, 2014

Reviewed: A People Betrayed by Paul Preston

Books • 22 Sep

Sociologist and lifelong dog-lover Tom Inglis: 18 years with his beloved Pepe

Reviewed: To Love a Dog by Tom Inglis

Books • 11 Sep

John Boyne: we first meet our nameless hero in Palestine

Review: A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom - John Boyne

Books • 10 Sep

Manchán Magan: his new book explores how the Irish landscape and language are indivisible.

Reviewed: Thirty Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan

Books • 12 Sep

David Kynaston at an Aldershot game (Photo Lucy Kynaston)

Reviewed: Shots in the Dark by David Kynaston

Books • 09 Sep

Louise O'Neill: After the Silence plays to her strength, writing in the whodunnit genre for the first time

Reviewed: After the Silence by Louise O'Neill

Books • 07 Sep

Róisín Meaney: The reader should avoid judging this book by its cover.

Reviewed: The Restaurant by Róisín Meaney

Books • 04 Sep

Reviewed: A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Books • 02 Sep

Here is the Beehive is former Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan's first novel for adults (Pic: Ger Holland)

Reviewed: Here is the Beehive by Sarah Crossan

Books • 01 Sep

Novelist Nicola Cassidy: the later life of her subject, Fred Astaire's sister Adele was beset by unfortunate tragedy

Book review: Adele by Nicola Cassidy

Adele • 25 Aug

Ekwensi's most famous novel is set in an unnamed city which closely resembles the Nigerian capital, Lagos, Africa's most populous city.

Reviewed: People of the City by Cyprian Ekwensi

Books • 26 Aug

In Strange Flowers, the reader lives the pain that Donal Ryan has created for his characters.

Book Review: Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan

Book Review • 22 Aug

Samuel Beckett: Sonnenberg once told him a joke which he heard years later the Irishman was still trying to translate into French, not long before his death in 1989

Reviewed: Lost Property by Ben Sonnenberg

Books • 20 Aug

Elaine Feeney: probably one of the most unconventional Irish books of recent times

Reviewed: As You Were by Elaine Feeney

Books • 20 Aug

Emma Donoghue (photo Mark Raynes Roberts)

Book review: The Pull of the Stars - Emma Donoghue

Books • 18 Aug

Catherine Ryan Howard: one to watch on a global scale (photo Steve Langan)

Book review: The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

Books • 12 Aug

Liadán Hynes: divorce is not the end, even when it seems like it.

Reviewed: How to Fall Apart by Liadán Hynes

Books • 04 Aug

Paulus Hochgatterer: a Heimat-like rhythm to his lyrical depiction of life in the South Austrian countryside during WW II

The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero Paulus Hochgatterer

Culture • 03 Aug

A full moon lurks behind the Eiffel Tower: Malaparte's mostly nocturnal encounters in Paris are recalled in his unfinished diary

Review: Diary of a Foreigner in Paris Curzio Malaparte

Culture • 25 Aug

Caoilinn Hughes: vibrant, authenticity of language employed in The Wild Laughter

Reviewed: The Wild Laughter by Caoilinn Hughes

Books • 29 Jul

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