Anne Enright: ‘Male critical culture has become quite defensive and sour’
The author on her new novel, The Wren, The Wren, pretending to be a poet and the ‘male nastiness’ Sally Rooney encountered
Fayne: Sprawling Gothic tale of power, land and loss
Ann-Marie MacDonald’s period-detail-filled novel explores how borders both protect and suppress
Kate Mosse on writing about women pirates: ‘This is a proper buccaneering, swashbuckling book’
Her latest novel, The Ghost Ship, was inspired by stories of powerful but sidelined women in history including Anne Bonny, Mary Read and Gráinne O’Malley
‘The Berlin Wall was there, but I didn’t feel as if I was in a cell. I also felt free’
In Kairos, her new novel, Jenny Erpenbeck sets out to capture how it really felt to grow up in East Germany
Sebastian Barry: ‘A vigilance is required of us as human beings’
Writer on learning to read, reluctance to retire and his latest novel Old God’s Time about the scars of childhood abuse
Thomas Keneally: ‘I think all of us carry with us a penumbra of ghosts’
At 87, with more than 50 books to his name, the author is not a man to take things slowly, and the chat comes quick and fast
Douglas Stuart: ‘I felt overlooked by queer literature because it’s so middle class’
Shuggie Bain author discusses his new novel, performative masculinity and trying to fit in
Booth by Karen Joy Fowler: enjoyable and exceptionally poignant
Interesting questions arise from a focus on the family of Lincoln’s assassin
The Truth Will Out: Entertaining novel of dramatic possibilities
Rosemary Hennigan’s tale of aspiring actor explores ethics of drama but needs tighter focus
Novelist Sarah Moss: ‘The injustice of the lockdown made my blood boil’
Complicated ethics of the pandemic underpin UCD professor’s new novel, The Fell
Damon Galgut: ‘There’s something jagged and incoherent about the South African psyche’
The author’s Booker-shortlisted novel gives a palpable sense of the nation’s political and social realities
‘Books are the most amazing technology we’ve built to outlast death’
Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See, talks about winning the Pulitzer, environmental activism and his new book Cloud Cuckoo Land
John Boyne: ‘It was very, very upsetting to be called names and to have death threats’
Backlash to the author's recent young-adult book inspired a new novel about social media
Valeria Luiselli: America is ‘a country abandoned by its government’
Lost Children Archive writer on foundation myths, child incarceration and a sonic essay
Graham Norton: ‘I wanted out, out, out of Ireland’
The TV presenter on his third novel, life in west Cork and his pandemic talk show