John Self

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John Self is a contributor to The Irish Times.

This Train is For by Bernie McGill: Journeying into the past

Book review: Second collection of stories from Derry author is peppered with wit – and strangeness

The Written World: Zingy, fun collection with a knack for the killer opening

Book review: Kevin Power writes with admirable breeziness on writers and writing, the state of literary criticism and more

Alice Zeniter and Frank Wynne win International Dublin Literary Award

Author and translator discuss The Art of Losing, a novel about Algeria and France

Making amends: David Park on loss, regret and youthful idealism

Belfast writer has set his ninth novel, Spies in Canaan, during the Vietnam war

I, John Kennedy Toole: confederacy of inventions

A diverting curio that can carry us back to a modern classic

Jennifer Egan: ‘I was astonished to find I made a lot of factual errors’

Writer on latest novel The Candy House, book promotion and the aesthetics of gaming

Sebastian Barry and John Walsh lift the lid on the literary world

Barry’s lectures cover writing, theatre and family while Walsh reflects on life as an editor

Adrian Duncan: ‘Peatlands and electricity poles are so giving to me’

Berlin-based writer on pursuing obsessions and his novel about a Russian geometer

Dublin Literary Award shortlist: the six books in running for €100,000 prize

John Self reckons The Art of Falling and The Art of Losing are the pick of a strong shortlist

The Books Quiz: About whose death did Gore Vidal remark, ‘Great career move’?

Plus: Which Irish writer contributed to the scandalous musical revue Oh! Calcutta!?

Andrew Miller interview: New novel focuses on recovery and regret

‘How do you recover from something you’ve no business recovering from?

What Is American literature? A fascinating and frustrating overview

Book review: Ilan Stavans attempts to examine a huge topic in less than 200 pages

Wendy Erskine: ‘There’s a real high that comes from having written a short story’

The Belfast-based writer’s new collection, Dance Move, is packed with life and colour

Gary Shteyngart: ‘I don’t know how to describe it other than Chekhov’s The Big Chill’

The US author on his new Covid novel, and where he’ll flee to when Trump returns

‘Writing about the world of your childhood is the hardest thing to do’

Jan Carson on her latest book, The Raptures, which she wrote in a cafe in east Belfast