The Irish Times

Tóibín’s Booker-listed novel throws down a gauntlet to our method of reasoning

Opinion: We have ceased to treat seriously the great questions of existence

Fri Oct 11 2013 - 12:02

Jhumpa Lahiri: A serious voice that comes from nowhere

‘It is not easy to like,’ the candid author says of her latest novel, the Booker-shortlisted ‘The Lowland’

Wed Oct 09 2013 - 01:00

Colm Tóibín sole Irish contender on exciting Booker shortlist

Although The Voyage, by Murray Bail, failed to make even the longlist, this is an exciting selection

Wed Sept 11 2013 - 01:06

Eleanor Catton: a luminous new star in the literary constellation

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton is not yet 28, but her second novel is one of the favourites for this year’s Man Booker Prize

Wed Sept 11 2013 - 01:00

Will it be third-time lucky for Tóibín?

Irish writer makes Man Booker shortlist again as McCann and Ryan lose out

Tue Sept 10 2013 - 16:20

Three Irish novelists on tenterhooks over Booker shortlist

Donal Ryan, Colm Tóibín and Colum McCann hope to be among six nominees

Mon Sept 09 2013 - 22:15

The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri

Reviewed by Eileen Battersby

Sat Aug 31 2013 - 01:00

Fictions for Our Times (video)

Fintan O’Toole introduces Legends of the Fall, a new short story series beginning in the print edition of The Irish Times on Saturday

Fri Jul 26 2013 - 16:40

Debut novelist speechless after making Booker prize long list

Tipperary-born Donal Ryan among three Irish writers who made Man Booker prize long list for literature

Thu Jul 25 2013 - 01:00

Three Irish authors make Man Booker longlist

Jim Crace’s ‘Harvest’ hard to beat despite interesting list

Wed Jul 24 2013 - 01:00

McCann, Tóibín, Ryan are Irish authors on Booker longlist

Thirteen books in the running for prestigious literary prize

Tue Jul 23 2013 - 12:32

Harvest time for Jim Crace as he signs off with a final novel

Jim Crace is one of the finest English novelists of the past 20 years - so why has he written his final novel?

Mon Mar 11 2013 - 02:00

Rich bounty of a writer's gift

FICTION: The British writer Jim Crace’s new – and, he says, last – novel is a haunting work of…

Sat Feb 09 2013 - 00:00