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Eoin Colfer
Meeting a childhood idol is a daunting prospect, even more so when the hero in question is an author whose [...]
Interview: Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies
On the Celtic Tiger, growing up, and learning to not be too precious
Foot soldiers in the narrative army: Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next (Interview)
The best-selling author of the ‘literary detective’ series
That’s just how she does it — Lorna Goodison, By Love Possessed (Interview)
The lauded Jamaican author on character, Keats, football, and ‘The Yogourt Principle’
Sexual politics — Tristan Garcia, Hate: A Romance (Interview)
A bilingual exchange with the winner of the Prix de Flore. Questions by JADE COLBERT, translation by JANE BAO
Through the past, darkly — Dan Vyleta, The Quiet Twin (Interview)
Rear Window on the Ringstrasse, Nazi Austria ‘from the kitchen and the hallway’ makes for a paranoid, claustrophobic thriller. It’s also a thorough psychological examination of life in the terror state.
David Mitchell v. The Orcs of Infinity: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Interview)
Reading interviews David Mitchell has given over the years, there emerge at least three preoccupations he has with himself as [...]
Ages and stages — Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal (Interview)
The Rehearsal, which details the reverberations of a sex scandal at a girls’ school, was published in New Zealand, where [...]

