Sinéad Gleeson

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

There should be no need for all-female anthologies, distancing women from the hallowed hall of Irish literature, but the word writer had a default meaning: man