COLM TOIBIN A Guest at the Feast. Reviewed by Michael Jongen
The author of The Magician is also a skilled essayist, ranging across the personal, religion, and literature. In the first essay in this collection, ‘Cancer: My Part in...
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The new novel from the author of The Undertaking explores the impact of colonialism on one small island. Mr Lloyd is an artist who describes himself as ‘half married’...
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The strange case of Roger Casement. The ghost of Roger Casement is beating on the door. W B Yeats This a difficult book to review, but not because it’s boring or poorly...
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