Brenda Navarro uses dual narratives to explore missing children and dark maternity

Writer Brian Leyden on how his book club has moved to Zoom to survive the lockdown

Footage of secret concert on community centre roof in Sheriff Street in 1982 emerges

The astute, captivating story of expat life of an American woman in Brazil

Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list

The US president is not slyly trying to alter our perception of reality – he’s just a fibber

Barack Obama talks to New York Times chief book critic about role of literature and writing in his life, from helping him work out his own identity to connecting with people

If I were a man sitting in the Dáil and I knew the only reason I’d got there was because of the special privileges my gender affords me, I’d be embarrassed

Brought to Book Q&A: Norwegian author and pianist on where he writes and what he reads

With the Dublin Writers Festival kicking off this week, here are 10 great books with writers as their subject

‘I had to remould my brain to write “The Follow”. It involved three trips to Borneo and years of reading and studying and thinking hard about human beings and our place in the natural world’

Doris Lessing: October 22nd, 1919 – November 17th, 2013

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Author tackled race, ideology and gender politics in a prolific career