I decided to invent a pseudonym for myself. So Benjamin Black I became – The Irish Times
Frequently I am asked, in interviews and in question-and-answer sessions after public events, about the origins of this…
Authors and critics pick their favourites – The Irish Times
John Banville If you think the rise of the far right in the United States is a new…
‘You cannot censor me. They would try it now with all this wokeist nonsense’ – The Irish Times
Like a gondolier on the Canale Grande, John Banville seems right at home in Venice, the setting for…
‘All the emotion I was suppressing, that I didn’t know what to do with, was grief’ – The Irish Times
“What is a novella?” Colm Tóibín asks rhetorically in an essay, In Brief, from his tremendous new collection…