Tightly constructed thriller explores class and privilege in contemporary Britain

There’s an idealistic atmosphere here you don’t find much any more. It’s both reassuring and nostalgic

Brokentalkers have teamed up with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to blend testimony, research and performance

The American author’s latest novel connects a child’s trauma to political disappearances in Japan

Theatre: Pom Boyd stars in clever, entertaining portrayal of Constance Smith’s extraordinarily novelistic life

These Pillow Queens songs belong to half-lit bars and the roar of a crowd that knows every word

Debut novel tackles dark times with lightness and compassion

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: This Ukrainian take on Camus’s play is a compelling political statement rather than convincing drama

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Dead Centre turn Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry into complex, layered, hallucinatory drama

Behind the art-world lampooning lies a portrait of the creative mind

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: This inventive play asks what happens after The Seagull’s gunshot

Desai returns to the most radical ambition of novels: making the complexity of other lives shareable

Rare though it is, when we actually achieve it, it makes all the fussing feel worth it

Beneath their bubbly surface, Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s pop songs hide a volcanic emotional terrain

I had my first cigarette at 15, for the same reason as most people: because you weren’t supposed to