Catherine Taylor

Contributor

Catherine Taylor is a contributor to The Irish Times.

This month’s best new translations: Haunted houses and haunted people

Voices from Argentina, Turkey, France, Brazil, Iceland and Colombia

Six books in honour of Women in Translation Month

Brief reviews of The Pachinko Parlour, Dogs of Summer, Getting Lost, All Our Yesterdays, Here Be Icebergs and Boulder

Works in translation: Short stories from Ukraine and a compelling novella

The latest in translated literature from Ukraine, Chile, South Korea, Italy and the Netherlands

Kurkov to Zabuzhko: contemporary Ukrainian authors at a glance

Since 1991 there has been a resurgence of books written in, and translated from, Ukrainian

Works in translation: A round-up of the best in fiction and non-fiction

Books from Argentina, Denmark, Norway and Germany, including a wartime classic

Translated fiction round-up: Piercing Icelandic novel about coercive relationship

Plus works from Nina Berberova, Evelina Santangelo, Julián Fuks, Iris Hanika, Mario Levrero

Translated books round-up: Dazzling debuts, auto-fiction and more

Reviews: The Faces, Ordesa, Slash and Burn, God 99, Night As It Falls, Kokoschka’s Doll

Translated fiction: Andrés Barba explores the pitiless nature of belonging

Plus new thrills from Lina Wolff, Luis Sagasti, Olja Knezevic and Benjamín Labatut

The Butchers: masterful plot about pandemic and upheaval

Ruth Gilligan’s uncanny novel has a terrible dark heart and is set around the BSE virus

Katalin Street review: Magda Szabó’s piercing exploration of the effects of severe trauma

Szabó charts the intensely linked histories of three neighbouring Hungarian families from 1934–68

Stinging Fly Stories: charting many different Irelands

The champion of new writing celebrates its 20th anniversary with an anthology well worth reading

Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life by Rose Tremain: a beautifully crafted memoir

Author’s first work of non fiction looks at her early – and emotionally impoverished – years at home and in boarding school

Travelling in a Strange Land review: Grief and redemption in the bleak midwinter

David Park’s novel explores the physical and emotional journey of a middle-aged father