Writing for the big screenFICTION: NOBODY MOVE – the title may well be a stage direction for the reader as well as the assorted characters, most of whom…Sat Aug 08 2009 - 01:00
10 Great Things About the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show1. The Aga Khan Part of the Meydan FEI Nations’ Cup series.Sat Aug 01 2009 - 01:00
A meal with someone you may or may not likeFICTION: How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall, Faber, 289pp, £12.99. HOW TO create, how to live, how to surviveSat Aug 01 2009 - 01:00
The cartographer as witnessRichard Bartlett’s maps of early 17th-century Ireland were a great boon to his employer, the queen of EnglandSat Aug 01 2009 - 01:00
A simmering rage and a sense of justice lay at the heart of McCourt's writingEVEN IN the mind-boggling world of overnight literary sensations Frank McCourt’s candid memoir took some beatingTue Jul 21 2009 - 01:00
Intelligent insightsSHORT STORIES: What Becomes , By AL Kennedy, Jonathan Cape, 217pp. £16.99Sat Jul 18 2009 - 01:00
Getting behind the gloss of fameFICTION: To Heaven By Water by Justin Cartwright Bloomsbury, 304pp, £16Sat Jul 11 2009 - 01:00
Grasping the dark fears of the imaginationFICTION: Book of Clouds By Chloe Aridjis Chatto, 209pp, £11Sat Jul 04 2009 - 01:00
Land of the free. . .One obvious novel to read this weekend is Richard Ford’s Independence DaySat Jul 04 2009 - 01:00
A bewildering failureFICTION: This Is How By MJ Hyland Canongate, 376pp, £12.99Sat Jun 27 2009 - 01:00
Moving encounter with master storytellerFirst published June 29th, 2009: Rarely in its long, glorious history has the elegant Examination Hall of Trinity College Dublin seemed quite as relaxed a placeFri Jun 26 2009 - 01:00
The master takes a final bowSHORT STORIES: My Father’s Tears and Other Stories By John Updike Hamish Hamilton, 292pp, £18.99Sat Jun 20 2009 - 01:00
Taut, provocative tale by a master of dramaFICTION: The Wedding in Auschwitz By Erich Hackl, translated by Martin Chambers Serpent’s Tail. 148pp. £7.99Sat Jun 13 2009 - 01:00
A life shaped by romance to a fading manFICTION: The Shape of Him By Gill Schierhout Cape, 210pp. £16.99Sat Jun 06 2009 - 01:00
An Irishwoman's DiaryIT IS OFTEN described as one of the worst examples of bad timing in the history of classical musicTue May 26 2009 - 01:00
Casting a spell over memory and emotionFICTION: The Housekeeper + The Professor By Yoko Ogawa , translated by Stephen Snyder Harvill Secker, 180pp, £11.99Sat May 09 2009 - 01:00
Mind maps of a boy geniusFICTION : The Selected Works of TS Spivet By Reif Larsen, Harvill Secker, 375pp, £17.99Sat May 02 2009 - 01:00
India's master of subtletyTHE ARTS: BELFAST ON a Saturday morning. Two young men are waiting outside the Europa HotelThu Apr 16 2009 - 01:00
Getting to the heart of a mazeFICTION: The Quickening Maze By Adam Foulds Cape, 259pp, £12.99Sat Apr 11 2009 - 01:00
Garden grandeurSUCH BEAUTY! Should that exclamation sound overly-theatrical, perhaps even a shade Victorian in our age of slick sound bites, …Sat Apr 11 2009 - 01:00
Drama of passion has inspired enduring musicA MAN is nailed to a wooden cross. His distraught mother kneels at his feetFri Apr 10 2009 - 01:00
American succeeds in Russian territoryFICTION: The Archivist’s Story By Travis Holland Bloomsbury, 241pp, £12.99Sat Apr 04 2009 - 01:00
Impac springs no surprisesThe shortlist of eight books for this year’s Impac Dublin Literary Award, which is announced today, is an intelligent gathering…Thu Apr 02 2009 - 01:00
Bringing another India to lifeFICTION : The Immortals By Amit Chaudhuri Picador, 405pp. £16.99Sat Mar 21 2009 - 00:00
A skilled take on life's lonely encountersFICTION: Strangers By Anita Brookner Penguin, 202pp, £16.99Sat Mar 07 2009 - 00:00
A grim take on global guiltFICTION : Burnt Shadows By Kamila Shamsie Bloomsbury, 367pp, £14.99Sat Feb 28 2009 - 00:00
A brutal take on a good GermanFICTION: Alone in Berlin , By Hans Fallada, translated by Michael Hofmann, Penguin, 568pp, £20.00Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1865-66)SECOND READING 51: A DISGRUNTLED erstwhile Petersburg university student is starving and too embarrassed to risk an encounter…Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00
Rare and brave man who elevated our own experience of lifeHE WAS a hero; there is no other wordSat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00
Rare and brave man who elevated our own experience of lifeHE WAS a hero; there is no other wordSat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00
A brutal take on a good GermanFICTION: Alone in Berlin , By Hans Fallada, translated by Michael Hofmann, Penguin, 568pp, £20.00Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1865-66)SECOND READING 51: A DISGRUNTLED erstwhile Petersburg university student is starving and too embarrassed to risk an encounter…Sat Feb 21 2009 - 00:00
The wonder of a journey to the wildThe Dog By Kerstin Ekman, Translated by Linda Schenck and Rochelle Wright Sphere, 133pp, £12.99Sat Feb 07 2009 - 00:00
A double take of savage realismSOCIETY IS becoming increasingly strange, even terrifyingSat Feb 07 2009 - 00:00
Study on Irish draught horse welcomed by breedersEFFORTS TO preserve and sustain the future of Ireland’s only native horse breed, the Irish draught, are expected to be significantly…Mon Jan 19 2009 - 00:00
A comic take on insecurity and lossFICTION: The Bird Room , by Chris Killen, Canongate, 202pp, £9.99Sat Jan 17 2009 - 00:00
SECOND READING: 45HUNGER By Knut Hamsun (1980): FEELING HUNGRY is a commonplace human experience; food is a basic needSat Jan 10 2009 - 00:00
Sebastian Barry novel wins Costa Prize for fictionHAVING ALMOST but not quite won the 2008 Man Booker prize, Sebastian Barry's novel, The Secret Scripture , was yesterday declared…Tue Jan 06 2009 - 00:00
Not all gloom for the winter solsticeNeither cloudy skies nor protests at Green failures could dim the conviviality of Newgrange watchersMon Dec 22 2008 - 00:00
Research boost for Bru na Boinne complexA WIDE-RANGING new research project has been devised with the aim of developing a multidisciplinary approach to the study of …Mon Dec 22 2008 - 00:00
SECOND READING: 40WAS EVER AN individual as cruelly tested as Ethan Frome? Tormented by obligation and duty which trap him in one hell, passion…Sat Dec 06 2008 - 00:00
Food pilgrims progress to DroghedaNew England clam chowder, boned rolled herb stuffed turkey, sweet potato pie and pumpkin seed cookies are the only way to celebrate…Sat Nov 22 2008 - 00:00
SECOND READING: 37Dom Casmurro By Machado De Assis (1899) IT ALL BEGINS gently, sedately; the narrator, apparently an older man, recalls meeting…Sat Nov 15 2008 - 00:00
