Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne review: One of the books of the year, if not the decade
A Time for Truth by Sarah Corbett Lynch: Daughter of Jason Corbett makes for a compelling and understandably angry narrator
Unravelling an Irish-American family mystery: my great-grandfather arrived in the US in 1922, on the run as an IRA man
Author Paul McVeigh: ‘In Belfast, you go on a bad date and after that you bump into them every time you go out’
How Covid changed me: ‘Remote working is second to none. I have kids, am stress-free and eat healthier’
In a postliberal world, what artforms will replace literary novels, Hollywood movies and rock albums?
‘I don’t write a lot of personal stuff’: author Róisín Lanigan on being married, divorced and surviving cancer before her 30s
Woman secures barring order against ‘aggressive’ partner who allegedly throws out food to stop her eating
A Carlow man of steel who helped build Dubai: ‘There was always money available to make construction projects look good’
