Fiction in translation: How trauma interrupts the flow of a life, to devastating effect
Sara Baume reviews novels by Marie Darrieussecq; Joanna Elmy; Clyo Mendoza; Ana Paula Maia; and Ibtisam Azem
By Sara Baume
Irish thriller writer Tana French dominates New York Times best-of-century lists
The Writer’s Writer: A dive into John McGahern’s literary archive shows his huge impact
Captain’s Dinner by Adam Cohen: An act of cannibalism that ‘changed the world’
Stealing Hitler’s Rocket: Thoroughly engaging story of frantic race to smuggle out a V-2
A grafter and a dreamer, Shirley Jackson found that sweet spot between reality and magic
Reviews in brief: The Smiths, Offseason and Sail Away Land
John Berger: From Life. Biographer Tom Overton, like his subject, breaks the vessel he is writing within
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POETRY
A Little Bit Bad: One for the bath with a glass of wine, in the best possible way
By Lucy Sweeney Byrne
Seamus Heaney and Catholicism: An astute account of religion’s afterlife in poet’s work
By Nicholas Allen
In Claudia Rankine’s Triage, the reader bears witness to an intense and unresolved debate
By Rachel Andrews
The Life Swap by Jeananne Craig: Even the most minor characters get a satisfying arc as they face their flaws
By Ferdia Roche
Shapechangers: Essays from Irish women quietly challenging how literary history is written
By Adam Wyeth
‘Why are you home early?’: Shauna said the first thing she could think of to her mother and regretted it immediately
By Caragh Maxwell
The History of the World in 12 Soccer Matches: Players become spectators of the social upheavals surrounding them
By NJ McGarrigle
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