Nuala O’Faolain: Are You Somebody? Honesty that’s compelling and at times unsettling
Late writer’s memoir is equally striking in its treatment of female desire and the need to be seen
Kingsley Amis
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru - The men don’t come out of it all that well
Hollywood star Patricia Neal’s ‘career, independence and beauty were gone within a decade’ of marrying Roald Dahl
Martin Amis obituary: A writer who combined moral seriousness with mordant wit
His loss will be felt keenly at a time when Anglophone literature is mired in a charmless and po-faced moral earnestness
The strangest thing about Martin Amis’s death is that Martin Amis isn’t around to write about it
It turns out that I don’t want anyone else’s take. I want Amis’s own report. I want another Amisian dispatch from the front lines of experience
Medals and Prizes: Deftly crafted stories filled with dark comedy
Book review: Metcalf is an accessible writer whose engaging collection spans a life’s work
I Think, Therefore I Say ‘Amn’t I?’ – Frank McNally on a profound question of Hiberno-English
An Irishman’s Diary
London Letter: David Hockney a rare Brexiteer among British cultural giants
Most British writers today are Remainers. Which side would past literary giants take?
How to end the hangover? If we knew we’d bottle it . . .
From hair of the dog to Mexican prawn salad, seasonal over-indulgers seek best cure
Historian of Stalinism and robust right-wing polemicist
Robert Conquest: July 15th, 1917 - August 3rd, 2015
10 books to read in your first semester
With the Leaving Cert results out this week, here’s a literary taster of what to expect at third level
How age twists leftish youth into raving right-wing bigots
Even the most liberal of us tend to become contempt-filled hardliners as the decades pass
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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