The Position of Spoons by Deborah Levy: Essays from a writer who delves deep inside life’s gory realities
Levy’s restless intelligence probes the dark corners of the mind and draws attention to lesser-known 20th-century female voices
Deborah Levy
The Voids by Ryan O’Connor: a compassionate, original novel
Book review: much of this reads like a surreal picaresque in a destitute part of Glasgow
Long Players by Tom Gatti: A perfect compilation
Book review: Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Sarah Hall are among the 50 authors selected to write about the albums that shaped them
My Phantoms: A mother-daughter relationship laid bare with raw ingenuity
Review: Gwendoline Riley’s latest novel perfectly captures the ennui of our times
Robert John Ardiff: The Corridors of Love – Echoing life’s frailty
Second solo album has a sense of displacement and disquiet throughout
Neck trouble, philosophy and defiance: A literary guide to middle age
Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature
Man Booker prize: Paul Beatty wins with The Sellout
Author wins for satire on race in the US and becomes first American to win prize
Man Booker Prize: two-time winner Coetzee left off shortlist
Madeleine Thien now favourite with symphonic masterwork Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Man Booker shortlist: big books, big disappointments
Man Booker selection pales in comparison to international stablemate - this is where the titles of real quality can be found, lost in translation as it were
Irish publishers left on the shelf by Man Booker Prize
The awards preserve a system in which Irish work has to be passed on to a UK press
Man Booker prize 2016: giant Coetzee towers over longlist
Irish authors lose out as four debuts included on 13-strong list
Championing women writers, broadening the mind
How a simple question began thousands of conversations and got a celebration started
Video: Deborah Levy on An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell
To accompany this beautiful short film by Ana Godinho de Matos (Chameleoneye Films) our Literary Correspondent Eileen Battersby reflects on the seductive menace that has always shaped Deborah Levy’s elegant, intelligent and devastatingly realistic vision
Don’t shoehorn yourself into the wrong form of writing
Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Ron Rash and Deborah Levy all feel it is important for beginners to try out different forms – poems, novels, short stories, plays – to see what suits them and what excites them
Would you like to write a book?
Over the next 12 weeks we’ll be getting the help of successful authors to explain everything would-be writers need to know. This is the first step to your debut novel
Making this the year of reading women
An online campaign wants to get readers to seek out women authors, whether new, overlooked or forgotten
The world is your author: the Man Booker Prize broadens its reach
Now the award is open to all English-language writers, will the big names inherit the literary earth?
Great winner, shame about the shortlist
Kevin Barry’s wonderful novel is a worthy winner of the Impac; but it was chosen from a shortlist that did not reflect the quality of the wider literary field
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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