Christie Watson is the first in a handful of big name authors with new thrillers out this month. Winner of the Costa first novel award for her debut, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away,... Read more »
In the week that Ireland turns everything green and celebrates its diaspora, a new online archive has given voice to the human cost paid by generations of emigrants. More than 7,000 letters... Read more »
A novel with the title “Martyr!” arrives on the scene preloaded and explosive. The word is fraught, even more so now than when the book’s author, the Iranian American poet Kaveh Akbar,... Read more »
Large study finds atypical interactions between the frontal cortex and information processing centers deep in the brain March 13, 2024 • Media Advisory What: Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)... Read more »
Why would René Descartes, the father of modern rationalist philosophy, choose “meditations”—a term and genre associated with religious discourse and practice—for the title of his magnum opus that lays the metaphysical foundations... Read more »
At no point in the past 400 years has anyone campaigned for more stories about posh people in country houses. It wasn’t as though I had spotted a gap in the market. At times when I was... Read more »
The Irish author Paul Murray has won the inaugural £30,000 Nero Gold prize for The Bee Sting, a comic family saga set in rural Ireland. Murray was announced as the winner at... Read more »
“Et tu, Brute? Et tu, Sam? Et tu, Zink of the Zinky-Dink Clan? Et tu, Nip-Nip and Nip-Nun? Et tu, et tu, everyone!” Source link Read more »