French Braid: Enjoyable novel but not Anne Tyler’s finest
This engaging read on the knottiness of family ties is full of wisdom nonetheless
Fake heiress Anna Sorokin: ‘Does crime pay? I can’t say no because I did get paid’
Inventing Anna: Netflix hired Sorokin as a consultant for its new drama about her fraud
Beware the climate doomsayers
One Change: Hope – not gloom – should underpin the drive for climate action
Luster: Forceful and funny tale of race, gender and desire
Book review: Raven Leilani’s debut charts the messy lives of shiny, unhappy people
Covid virus shutdown puts a check on sport’s hyperbole
Marketing needs to put claims that sport brings us all together into perspective
How Mayo writer Sally Rooney became a literary phenomenon in the UK
British bookshops are keeping stashes of ‘Normal People’ behind their counters
Feast Days by Ian MacKenzie review: A truly convincing female voice
The astute, captivating story of expat life of an American woman in Brazil
The Floating World review: Shelter from the storm
New fiction: An excellent debut charts a family’s chaos in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Joshua Cohen: 'I am a partisan of the parochial'
The author's latest book is about 'Israel and Palestine; it’s about gentrification; it’s about race relations in the US'
The Leavers review: A riveting tale of immigrants in New York
This stunning and fearless debut novel is about adoption and the desire to belong
Booby-trapped breakfasts are a rotten way to choose staff
Schwab CEO was spot on in one thing at least – inviting job candidates to a restaurant
International Dublin Literary Award longlist announced
Impressive show for German language writers with 11 titles among 160 nominated
‘I waited with trepidation to see how my country would classify my wife and I’
Ruth O’Farrell on the shame she felt as a gay person growing up in Ireland and her joy at watching the Yes result from New York
The writing ritual: from blank page to Booker contender
Doughnuts and cigarettes or blindfold, earmuffs and earplugs? Writers can have odd ways of getting ready for their working day – or night. Gavin Corbett, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Henrietta McKervey, Thomas Morris and Paul Murray take us into their creative worlds
10 summer releases to watch out for
New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights
A war of attrition: Eileen Battersby on The Winter War, by Philip Teir
Review: A bland Scandinavian debut novel about a failing marriage – and a hamster – demonstrates just how difficult it can be for writers to make the ordinary compelling
Pacy potboiler with a quiet heart: The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
Joël Dicker’s bestseller is thriller escapism writ large, irrepressibly exuberant storytelling that tramples realism underfoot as it rattles along at a thunderous pace
Is Irish literature too local to have philosophical heft?
In broader European and American literature, it is easier to find genuine marriages of philosophy and fiction
Eat your words
With the Ballymaloe Literary Festival taking place this weekend, here are 20 literary quotations to whet the appetite
Would @WilliamButlerTweets have written worse poetry?
If WB Yeats really could be “all over” YouTube and Twitter, he’d suffer many writers’ greatest problem
Ben Marcus – a bright spark in the world of letters
The path of the novelist can be a treacherous one, as novelist Ben Marcus has learned – and taught
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