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‘Readers find it easy to carry Borges in their heads. It has proved rather difficult, however, to carry his work in a reasonable number of books’

‘Readers find it easy to carry Borges in their heads. It has proved rather difficult, however, to carry his work in a reasonable number of books’

‘The Correspondence Artist’ by Barbara Browning

Book excerpt:

‘The Correspondence Artist’ by Barbara Browning

“I wasn’t going to have a jacket with tigers and ladies in saris”

When Book Reviews Kill

When Book Reviews Kill

‘Public Enemies’ by Bernard-Henri Lévy and Michel Houellebecq

Book excerpt:

‘Public Enemies’ by Bernard-Henri Lévy and Michel Houellebecq

Salman Rushdie on Video Games and the Future of Storytelling

Video:

Salman Rushdie on Video Games and the Future of Storytelling

The Writer’s Prison

Ten Million Hopeful Scribblers

Ten Million Hopeful Scribblers

‘It’s been a long time since an author has been identified as a one-time circus roustabout’

‘Grand Street was more than a magazine; more even than a salon’

‘Grand Street was more than a magazine; more even than a salon’

Donald Sturrock Reads from ‘Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl’

Podcast:

Donald Sturrock Reads from ‘Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl’

In what way does the literary Nobel Prize herald the dawn of a future Global Canon?

‘In vast, impoverished cities like Bombay, Cairo, Jakarta, Rio, or Lagos, the plot lines of the nineteenth century proliferate. Not ignorant mass suffering, but the ordeal of sentient individuals who are daily exposed to a world of possibilities through a sheet of glass-satellite TV, the Internet-that keeps them out.’

Are Dublin’s literary connections just accidents of birth?

Are Dublin’s literary connections just accidents of birth?

‘English, encountered by chance, became for Marías a vocation and later a fate’

‘For three centuries Patience Worth had searched for an earthly “crannie” to help her fulfill a burning literary ambition. She’d found it at last in Pearl Curran…’

Labsal

A whole host of Greenes

“Drink, damn you! What else are you good for?”

‘William Golding, to other writers, is a model of the late starter.’