Where to now after one of the most corrosive US presidential elections in history

Let us not be coy: there are some on the left who are stumped by poor white people

Dublin and Galway hurlers have lot of history to live up to in November

Fresh, at times brilliant, debut short story collection portrays lost souls in Wales

In his work on many books, Robert Alter aims to translate not just the poem but the poet

EL Doctorow: January 6th, 1931 - July 21st, 2015

Arsenal legend has failed to live up to high expectations since joining Sky Sports

Review: A bland Scandinavian debut novel about a failing marriage – and a hamster – demonstrates just how difficult it can be for writers to make the ordinary compelling

The great French writer Colette was the first French woman to be given a state funeral - although she was denied a Catholic one because of her two divorces

‘New Yorker’ writer Roger Angell is the game’s undisputed poet laureate

`Use it or lose it'

In broader European and American literature, it is easier to find genuine marriages of philosophy and fiction

Irish authors tell us how and where they find inspiration for an idea strong enough to sustain a book, and how they go about turning that into an extended narrative

Nicholson Baker’s 10th novel is mildly eccentric and at times self-indulgent, but it is also sharp, daring and honest

On the comedian’s mind are anti-Semitism and how it is not really considered racism, his experience of fame as ‘a constant puncturing of the moment’, and doing stand-up again

Britain’s ‘Literary Review’ draws attention to ‘crude, badly written’ passages

Food has always found its way into fiction. There’s even a genre where eating forms the backdrop to the story

Growing up in Co Mayo helped Colin Barrett shape wild visual narratives written in local voices

More than 25 of his works were made into movies or television shows