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The Dublin author on his multilayered new novel, Cameo, how he avoids making his working-class roots an ‘identity spectacle’ ...

Million Dollar One Point Slam, at the Australian Open, is a brilliant reminder that sometimes we only get one shot ...

For these reasons the newly discovered archive of signed letters, press photographs and an inscribed portrait of Kennedy, ...

A new account of Moore as a writer attuned to debates on gender, education, boxing, empire, enslavement and agricultural ...

Svetlana Satchkova’s English-language debut explores an uncomfortable reality in which opportunities for rebellion are slim ...

While LaValle’s main target is the failing US health system, his sprawling and slightly in-need-of-pruning novel takes in ...

How a population perceived as being dour and taciturn by their neighbours appear to have cracked the code of happiness ...

Dublin architect Cormac Murray has turned his “personal obsession” with Ireland’s US embassy into a really engaging book ...

A lively memoir on the adventures of a travelling theatre group; a fable-like novella; and an enlightening novel with real ...

When I think about my earliest memories of a wider world, of a political reality that was outside the bounds of my childhood but beginning to press in upon my awareness, I think, like most Europeans ...

From Henry VIII to Lenin or Nero to Hitler, authoritarians always want to control money: who prints it, how much of it and at what price. They just can’t help themselves because money is the ultimate ...