Author Mary Costello: ‘Gaza has disabled me. I think, how could I go into a room and make up stories?’
As her latest novel is published, the acclaimed Irish author has turned her attention to non-fiction, still writing ‘what obsesses, consumes and distresses’ her
By Edel Coffey
New poetry: ‘A masterful recreation of the surreal, terrifying world of night workers’
You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate: Raw, fast-paced memoir full of dark humour
Joseph O’Connor on Anthony Cronin: ‘Tension between content and style is where his wonderful energy arises’
‘An exquisitely satirised handsome-bastard boyfriend’: Scottish gothic; New York angst; Gen Z wit
Beryl Bainbridge drew on her own life for her funny, dark novels
Author Henrietta McKervey: ‘I do like a good murder’
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The Lock-Keeper’s Wife by John MacKenna: Menopausal protagonist brought low by a lousy husband
By Brigid O'Dea
What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of the second World War
By Michael Russell
Field Notes from an Extinction by Eoghan Walls: Compelling story of survival and apocalypse
By Neil Hegarty
‘I did imagine an older Prince Charming coming into my life’: Gavin McCrea on walking in Paris with Rousseau
By Naoise Dolan
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