BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews ‘The Namesake’, by Jhumpa Lahiri, and ‘All This Happened, More or Less’ by Jayne A Quan
Traditions, transitions and identities
Staying In
A fiesta of writing to discover
BOOKS Bríd Conroy visits fellow booksellers in Spain, and discovers a whole new world of books to explore
Tackling dangerous historical myths
BOOKS Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy reviews ‘The Wrath to Come’, by Sarah Churchwell
Through the gates of Jerusalem
BOOKS Bríd Conway reviews ‘Nine Quarters of Jerusalem’, by Matthew Teller, a book that explores Jerusalem and her inhabitants
Books for long summer days
BOOKS Bríd Conroy shares her three picks for novels to read this summer, from authors Faith Hogan, Louise Kennedy and Bonnie Garmus
Breaking the silence
BOOKS Westport woman’s brave memoir sheds light on birth mothers’ experiences of adoption in the 1980s
Travel back in time
BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews two books that bring 19th-century social dramas vividly to life, by Leo Tolstoy and Hannah Kent
Empathy and the act of writing
BOOKS Bríd Conroy looks at two new releases: ‘The written world’, by Kevin Power, and Emilie Pine’s debut novel, ‘Ruth & Pen’
An eleven-song emotional cruise
MUSIC Liamy MacNally reviews ‘Strange’, the new album by Seamus Ruttledge, AKA Ruttlemush
Harrowing tales of Bessborough
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on Deirdre Finnerty’s harrowing book, ‘Bessborough: Three Women, Three Decades, Three Stories of Courage’
Japanese fiction touches on universal themes
BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews two books by Japanese authors: ‘Heaven’, by Mieko Kawakami, and ‘Snow Country’, by Yasunari Kawabata