Author Niall Williams: ‘I will always be an outsider, even here after 41 years’ – The Irish Times
The elegant first paragraph of Niall Williams’s latest book, O Now!, reminds me why my first child is…
John Banville cancels appearance at Spanish festival after it drops Argentinian author over pro-Israel stance – The Irish Times
Irish author John Banville has withdrawn from a Spanish literary festival after it excluded an Argentinian author over…
On the Equality of All Things by Carlo Rovelli: A sceptical eye on humanity’s grand claims – The Irish Times
On the Equality of All Things: Physics and Philosophy Author: Carlo Rovelli trans. Simon Carnell ISBN-13: 978-0241733707 Publisher:…
Ireland’s coastline – erosion in Wexford: ‘There’s nobody protecting my land for me’ – The Irish Times
On a sunny summer morning, Kelly’s Hotel in Rosslare Strand is a hive of activity. Staff are turning…
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…