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Author and academic Kevin Power assesses the career of the New Yorker, whose fiction was a game of hide and seek
Novel set in Ballina unfolds around characters who are abandoned, bereaved and trapped by circumstance
Herzog’s life and films dwell in the haunted house of the Third Reich
A substantial anthology of Mantel’s non-fiction work, one that would appeal to anyone with an interest in lucid thought
Weighing in at a slender 179 pages, McCormack’s quarry is the elusive stuff of consciousness itself
There is no clumsy expository dialogue in this gripping, moving story set in an ‘altered America’ of 1922
Can you stay glued to a novel if its protagonist is not a human being but a house?
Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel, John Banville and Roddy Doyle might wince at some of the judgments contained within
Kevin Power: I catch myself singing ‘Yes, yes, bedtime’s good for you’. All day. All week
Author has followed her essays Notes to Self with a contemporary Dublin Mrs Dalloway
‘You have a problem,’ my wife told me during lockdown. And she’s absolutely right
Douglas Stuart’s novel about gay teenager and tenement life in 1990s is let down by language
Kevin Power: Embracing the banal on canal bank walks kept me sane during lockdown
Book review: Giles Foden is a novelist for whom history is a real presence
I don’t want him to ‘be a man’. I want him to be something else – but what?