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Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
Browser: On the road in old Ireland, and an accidental journalist Brief reviews of: This Road of Mine; And Finally: A Journalist’s Life in 250 Stories; The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies Sat, May 8, 2021, 06:00 Paddy Murray has worked for various Irish newspapers for 46 years. Lilliput Press, €15 The translation of Mo Bhealach Féin, by the Donegal writer Seosamh MacGrianna, offers an account of his life as a marginalised figure who chose the precarity of the road and the company of tramps over a pensionable job. Ó hAodha’s fine translation respects both the spirit and the le...
An impressive debut collection juxtaposes the quotidian world of the flatshare with historical settings and mythic themes âOne day the whole glittering world would fadeâ ⦠a red admiral butterfly. Photograph: Tim Mason/Alamy âOne day the whole glittering world would fadeâ ⦠a red admiral butterfly. Photograph: Tim Mason/Alamy JudeCook Wed 10 Feb 2021 04.00 EST In George Saundersâ luminously perceptive meditation on lessons learned from the Russian masters, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he suggests a short story should âalways be escalatingâ; that ...