Book Review: The Factory – Hiroko Oyamada
"Hiroko Oyamada’s The Factory is a sharp and slight workplace novella." - Eve Hawksworth
Book Review: Beyond the Door of No Return – David Diop
"Once readers have submitted to walking this epistolary jungle straight through, Diop drops no unreasonable amount of botanical knowledge on them, and invokes the natural world with practical sensuality." -…
Book Review: The Stranger’s House: Writing Northern Ireland – Alexander Poots
"How best to inhabit a shifting landscape?... In the north of the last century, the problem presented with especial urgency, as we learn in this excellent survey of its writing."…
Book Review: Twiggy Woman – Oein DeBhairduin
"Beautifully and spookily illustrated by Helena Grimes, DeBhairduin’s collection of eerie folktales weaves ‘threads of connection between our mundane outer lives and our deep inner world’." - Holly Gash
Book Review: Tremor – Teju Cole
“There is a special place and pressure reserved for the literary wunderkind. Of these Teju Cole is one.” – Eve Hawksworth
Book Review: The Lights – Ben Lerner
"The Lights is a beautifully pure, uninhibited study in closing the gap between what we feel, and how we think we should express it." – Ciara Berkeley
Book Review: This Plague of Souls – Mike McCormack
"This Plague of Souls is a fever of an infectious, deleterious strain, the kind that will take its readers some time to shake." – Diarmuid McGreal
Book Review: Cahokia Jazz – Francis Spufford
"To boil Cahokia Jazz down to a genre novel about race is ‘only half the truth’." – Alice Wickenden
Dust Off: Breakfast on Pluto (1998) – Patrick McCabe
"Whatever its broader legacy, there is still great affection for Breakfast among its fans." – Diarmuid McGreal
Book Review: So Late in The Day – Claire Keegan
"Keegan’s parable illustrates that despite the illusion of love, it’s never too late in the day to walk away." - Aisling Arundel
Book Review: My Work – Olga Ravn
"My Work is hard work, and it calls the reader also to labour for reward." - Eve Hawksworth
Book Review: After the Funeral – Tessa Hadley
"The veteran Tessa Hadley’s latest short story collection, After the Funeral, cracks soul specificities open." - Ágnes Fodor
Book Review: Beasts of England
"Beasts of England provides ample fodder for the contemplation of our moment, but will ultimately leave you craving more substantial fare." - Diarmuid McGreal
Book Review: Thirsty Ghosts – Emer Martin
"‘Thirsty Ghosts’ is a story of missed chances, of childhood, of politics and power, of inherited pain, of familial love, but most of all it is a story of stories…
Book Review: I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home – Lorrie Moore
"Lorrie Moore’s fourth novel in as many decades is a deliberately irresolvable riddle, a missive of uncertain message, and a requiem without repose." - Diarmuid McGreal
Book Review: The Plague – Jacqueline Rose
“Rose’s The Plague is a masterpiece of on-the-pulse political criticism and portrayal of our population’s moral makeup.” - Ciara Berkeley
Book Review: Penance – Eliza Clark
"Penance, Eliza Clark’s second novel, is presented as a true crime book whose journalist author was ‘cancelled’ shortly after its publication, accused of illegally acquiring material and misrepresenting interviews." -…
Book Review: A Thread of Violence – Mark O’Connell
"As Macarthur is both defined and eclipsed by his strange crimes, O’Connell implores the reader to resist easy conclusions." - Eve Hawksworth