Maeve Brennan: loneliness elevated to an art form
Eileen Battersby reviews The Long-Winded Lady, Maeve Brennan’s New Yorker sketches, as part of our extensive coverage marking today's centenary of her birth
Brought to Book – Miriam Toews: ‘Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!’
‘I wanted to do a Masters degree in Irish literature but I ended up getting pregnant instead’
Account of a not so young man in Paris
A wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history of Paris
Short and very sharp: the majesty of Alice Munro
Munro’s genius is in the short story, and that is what makes her winning the Nobel Prize for Literature so exciting
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