Colm Tóibín: ‘I am much less sociable now, as I don’t drink any more’
For the author of A Long Winter and Ship in Full Sail, inspiration often comes subliminally. But he has also brought his inner self to the surface through therapy
By Martin Doyle
Author Arundhati Roy: ‘We are actually swimming in a sewer of moral rot’
New crime fiction: cynical pitch-black comedy reinvigorates the spy fiction genre
A breezy essay from Anthony Quinn; a novel to appeal to the mind by Craig Jordan-Baker; and Celia de Fréine’s first short story collection in English
Right here in Kilkenny there was a significant queer Georgian revolt
Ten years of DLR LexIcon in Dún Laoghaire: ‘People thought it was a vanity project and too much money’
Greyhound by Joanna Pocock: Not enough humanity to merit author’s sorrow
Poem of the Week: Pity About You
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POETRY
Inherited Fate by Noémi Orvos-Tóth: a welcome deepening of how we understand the human predicament
By Paul D’Alton
So You Want to Own Greenland? Lessons from the Vikings to Trump: A much sought-after property
By Andrew Lynch
The Lie of the Land by John Gibbons and Positive Tipping Points by Tim Lenton: Engaging, detailed, terrifying
By Pádraic Fogarty
Julia Kelly: ‘My mum died swimming in the Galápagos at 71. It was a strangely beautiful end for her’
By Martin Doyle
The Two Roberts by Damian Barr: Eloquent imagining of the lives of artists Colquhoun and MacBryde
By Neil Hegarty
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