Irish Literature
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Foster was my first contact with Claire Keegan and the work that made me fall in love with her writing. I recently revisited it and felt compelled to write about it here. Originally published as a short story in The New Yorker, Foster was later expanded into a novella and published by Faber. The narrative…
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Paul Lynch has described his novel as “an attempt at radical empathy”. He does that by recreating in a developed, Western country, the kind of sense of impermanence and political instability that is usually reserved for countries in other areas of the planet – from the Global South to the Middle East.
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Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting is one of those novels that you must sit with for a while. When I finished reading it, I wasn’t even absolutely sure whether I could say that I had liked it or not, or if it came down to those terms at all.
