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

Stony but not grey – An Irishman’s Diary about Paul Durcan’s memories of Patrick Kavanagh

Theatre review | Being Norwegian skirts cliche to achieve poignancy

Women are from Norway, men are from Scotland in David Greig’s charming comedy with hints of something darker

David Butler: ‘Great writers enrich experience, even the mundane’

Brought to Book Q&A: Author of The Judas Kiss and City of Dis on what he reads and how he writes

White truths: why novelist Edmund White believes love is worth dying for

Candour and honesty define the life and work of Edmund White, the prolific American novelist with a genius for expressing the agonies of human sexuality

Brought to Book: Rob Doyle on Keith Talent, Nietzsche’s morals and stone-cold classics

‘I’m grateful to the authors of shorter books, because my concentration is shot from the internet and all the coffee’