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In The Irish Times this Saturday, new Nobel laureate Jon Fosse talks to Rónán Hession about his career; Blindboy Boatclub talks to Keith Duggan about his new book. Gabriel Cooney writes about his new book, Death in Irish Prehistory. And there is a Q&A with Matt Cooper about his latest work.
Reviews are Christopher Kissane on Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World by Jane Ohlmeyer; Donald Clarke on My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand; Anna Carey on Jill Burke’s How To Be A Renaissance Woman; Martina Evans on the best new poetry; Dan McLaughlin on Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation by Yaroslav Hrytsak, translated by Dominique Hoffman; Malachy Clerkin on No Foreign Game by James Quinn; Kate Demolder on The Book You Want Everyone You Love To Read by Philippa Perry; Mihir Bose on One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink by Matthew Parker; Oliver Farry on Britain is Better Than This by Gavin Esler; Niamh Jiménez on The Psychosis of Whiteness by Kehinde Andrews; and Sarah Gilmartin on Absolution by Alice McDermott.
This week’s Irish Times Eason offer is The Mystery of Four by Sam Blake, just €5.99 with your paper, a €5 saving.
Some of the biggest names in Irish literature are coming together as part of Irish Artists for Palestine for a series of events this month and next. Irish Writers for Palestine will be a programme of four nights in Belfast, Cork, Dublin and Galway, each with a unique line-up of Irish writers and guests including Sally Rooney, Anna Burns, Kevin Barry, Donal Ryan, Elaine Feeney and Glenn Patterson. Irish Writers For Palestine is part of the all-island Irish Artists for Palestine programme of solidarity events.
More than 10,000 civilians, including more than 4,000 children, have been killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip since October 7th. The supply of clean water, medicine, food, and fuel has been greatly restricted in what UN Secretary-General António Guterres has described as “more…
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