Lucy Foley: ‘I love a really well-written yarn’
Best-selling author enjoys playing with old crime clichés
The Nacullians: Families as another brick in the wall
Craig Jordan-Baker explores a migrant Irish bricklayer and his clan with metafictional flair
What kinds of films will we watch in the post Covid-19 era?
Stories will need to establish whether they are set before, during or after the pandemic
Covid-19 has proved worse than the film-makers imagined
It’s hard, in 100 minutes, to convey the slow terror of a virus that kills in low percentages
Time loop: The plot device that comes back again and again and again
Groundhog Day is considered the best example, but it wasn’t the first – or the last
Kit de Waal: The Trick to Time review - In search of lost time
The Trick to Time review: A beguiling, simple story that hides a tricksy, troubled tale
The Afterlives review: inventive journey into the unknown
Life after death makes for an engaging topic in an imaginative and funny debut
'I have managed to become one of those elites Trump voters despise'
Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Russo says liberals in America 'have some soul-searching to do' and is bemused by the fact that he's become viewed as a political writer
Mia Gallagher: A decade spent making strange lost worlds
It has taken 10 years for Mia Gallagher to follow up her debut novel, but the almost labyrinthine Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland is well worth getting lost in
New fiction: Among the Ten Thousand Things, by Julia Pierpont
The children of a New York family pick up the pieces of a selfish adult world
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett: Review
Three variations on a couple track roads not taken, lives unlived
10 summer releases to watch out for
New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights
Five Irish novels on Impac longlist
Books nominated by public libraries for consideration include 142 novels
Brought to Book: Jane Casey on Donna Tartt, Maeve Brennan and avoiding the twist
‘If I love a book, I want to own a print version of it. My (huge) collection is like a physical manifestation of what furnishes my brain’
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