John le Carré’s A Legacy of Spies is a compelling tale of Cold War duplicity
It may seem a strange observation, but love is a major component of the author’s fictional world.
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Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends is an Irish social novel for the modern age
An Irish book with little to say about nationalism or the church is a breakthrough – though that’s where the…
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Michael Rosen’s latest memoir holds clues to the poet’s success
Rosen has the knack of instantly grabbing your attention.
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Why Thom Gunn is the poet laureate of male desire
Gunn’s formal craft and intelligence is up there with the best of our 20th-century poets.
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Roddy Doyle returns to the trauma of school days in Smile
The author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha punctures the comedy of Irish storytelling.
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19 years later: I’m still mad about the Cursed Child
Today marks the day when Albus Severus Potter first boarded the Hogwarts Express.
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Aged 6, finding Joe Orton’s diaries gave me a strange education in love, sex and death
We cared nothing about his work or the famous people he met.
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AN Wilson makes an unconvincing attempt to kick Darwin off his throne
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker portrays the naturalist as an unscrupulous self-promoter who directly influenced Nazi eugenics.
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