In Pablo Picasso’s portrait of Aimé Césaire, drawn after they met at the Soviet-organized World Congress of Intellectuals in Defence of Peace in Poland in August 1948, a man with a long, thin neck and ...

“Few writers are able to create a different world for you to live in”, the TLS said of a new novel, in 1963, “yet Miss [Victoria] Lucas in The Bell Jar has done just this.” This was quite a debut, ...

The title of Isabel Galleymore’s second collection of poems is a translation of Konrad Lorenz’s term Kindenschema – that is, the wide-eyed, round-faced quality that makes us Ah and Aw. Cuteness ...

April Balascio recounted details of her father’s murders in the true crime podcast The Clearing (2019), but the focus in her memoir Raised by a Serial Killer is on the quandary of a daughter’s mixture ...

“The need to go home … hit me like grief”. Mairéad, the protagonist of Elaine Garvey’s debut novel, is experiencing the feeling of bereavement that often comes when, at the brink of “proper” adulthood ...