Culture Why the novel matters We can try to bend the novel to fit our politics or culture, but it will always go its own way, making itself anew. By Eimear McBride
Music The night that changed my life: Eimear McBride on Romeo Castellucci’s take on the Divine Comedy By Eimear McBride
Music Eimear McBride on Tindersticks (1995 album): “It has shaped how I think about life” By Eimear McBride
Books Banned, burned and reviled: what was so radical about Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls? By Eimear McBride
Long reads “It gets people killed”: Osip Mandelstam and the perils of writing poetry under Stalin By Eimear McBride
Too close for comfort: Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk is very nearly greater than the sum of its parts One of the most consistent pleasures of Levy’s fiction is her complete resistance to unthinking characters, unthinking female characters… By Eimear McBride
1066 and all that: Eimear McBride on “The Wake” by Paul Kingsnorth In The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth delicately loops the multifarious layers of English history together. By Eimear McBride
How James Joyce’s Dubliners heralded the urban era It is through Joyce’s intimate rummagings through the city’s yens and wardrobes that we come closest to identifying its… By Eimear McBride