Fiction Fiction Ben Lerner A middle-aged writer returns to his college town to record the final interview with his 90-year-old intellectual mentor. But he’s broken his phone, and doesn’t seem able to... Read more »
The premise of Séamas O’Reilly’s brilliant debut novel is that a Hollywood actor has flown into Derry to star in a new TV series about the Troubles called Dead City, then mysteriously... Read more »
The Beatles learned how to be Beatles together. From 1963 to 1970, the group’s four members experienced an entirely new kind of fame, while leaning on each other to get through it.... Read more »
Kathy Burke’s mother, Bridget, died of stomach cancer when she was 18 months old; she writes that it made her “feel dead famous” in her community. She was raised by her older... Read more »
Domination by Alice Roberts review – a brilliant but cynical history of Christianity | History books
Domination tells the story of how a tiny local cult became one of the greatest cultural and political forces in history. Alice Roberts puts the case that the Roman empire lived on in... Read more »
Netflix has announced an adaptation of the Australian classic My Brilliant Career, the much-loved novel by Miles Franklin. The new show, which is now filming around South Australia, stars The Newsreader actor... Read more »