Deborah Levy
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Robert John Ardiff: The Corridors of Love – Echoing life’s frailty
- Music
- April 9, 2021, 05:00
Until fairly recently, Robert John Ardiff was a member of Come On, Live Long, the Irish band that came out of relative obscurity, nabbed a Choice Musi(...)

Neck trouble, philosophy and defiance: A literary guide to middle age
- Books
- February 2, 2019, 06:00
Last summer I had my 50th birthday. Fifty, which Victor Hugo called the youth of old age and is, according to George Orwell, the age at which everyone(...)

Man Booker prize: Paul Beatty wins with The Sellout
- Books
- October 25, 2016, 21:47
As darkening clouds of disbelief continue to gather over the US, anything can now happen. We know that for certain; the great Bob Dylan insists on pre(...)

Man Booker shortlist: big books, big disappointments
- Books
- September 13, 2016, 17:38
It is a fact, two words appear to dominate literary prize shortlist assessments these days; “big”, as in big name, and “indie”, as in independent publ(...)

Man Booker Prize: two-time winner Coetzee left off shortlist
- Books
- September 13, 2016, 10:52
Heralding the customary groans, cheers, sighs and gnashing of teeth the 2016 Man Booker shortlist has been announced and with it the six remaining gla(...)

Irish publishers left on the shelf by Man Booker Prize
- Opinion
- August 1, 2016, 01:00
Who cares about the Man Booker Prize? For most people, if the name is recognisable at all, it’s an award for the snooty elite – “posh bingo”, as Julia(...)

Man Booker prize 2016: giant Coetzee towers over longlist
- Books
- July 27, 2016, 12:41
Once the initial dust settles, that would be the slight cloud created by feet racing off to the nearest bookstore because this year’s Man Booker priz(...)

Championing women writers, broadening the mind
- Books
- March 7, 2015, 01:29
Last year the writer and illustrator Joanna Walsh created a series of hand-drawn bookmarks of some of her female literary heroes. Among them were G(...)

Video: Deborah Levy on An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell
- Books
- December 12, 2014
A seductive menace has always shaped Deborah Levy’s elegant, intelligent and devastatingly realistic vision. Her reworking of her long poem, An Amorou(...)

Don’t shoehorn yourself into the wrong form of writing
- Culture
- May 26, 2014, 01:00
(For the full how to write series click here) Last week’s article dealt with inspiration, but deciding on the right form for an idea may help f(...)