As the Gallagher brothers reunite for a tour including two dates at Croke Park in 2025, we look back at their most important gigs in Ireland

The pages are populated with rogues, addicts and grifters of all genders, whose stasis offers despair, but also a farrago of humour and pathos

Sinéad Gleeson reviews impressive new books on art by Lauren Elkin and Laura Cumming

Book Review: Any writer who picks up Kate Zambreno’s Drifts will feel a queasy wave of recognition

Vivian Gornick’s essays, first published in 1996, centre on aloneness but not loneliness

A parable on parenthood by the author of the award-winning essay collection, Constellations

Book review: The late journalist’s hugely accomplished debut feels as if there was much more to come

The writer on creating a world for a new album by her husband’s band, Mount Alaska

Book review: Leslie Jamison covers a wide range of subjects but always with empathy and intelligence

Artists showed a parallel creative life was possible, one that overshadows patient life

Rose George’s engaging guide to blood as ‘a medicine, a lifesaver and a commodity’

Tale of a young woman trapped in her father’s strange archaeological game could be read as a Brexit fable

This book of short stories is about in-betweenness, emotionally and geographically

Author re-examines her old diaries, while continuing to document life in the present

Narrative focuses on Leslie Jamison’s affair with alcohol, a reciprocal act of intoxication