Paul Auster: a magician who assembled mosaics of meaning and memory irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Paul Auster (1947-2024): a life of hiding and seeking irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Seaborne by Nuala O’Connor: An astonishingly sensual book irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Lucy Caldwell: ‘It took me more than a decade of trying to write short stories before any of them worked. It was long and gruelling’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Local history: a Wicklow tea room, ambitious Kennedys, New Quay secrets and Cork curiosities irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Caoilinn Hughes: ‘I suppose it’s in our DNA, that instinct to leave and to move’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Translated fiction: Memory, history and the question of ‘sampling’ from other novels irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

An expert’s secret rules of drinking in an Irish bar irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

An African History of Africa by Zeinab Bedawi: A richly rewarding sweep that challenges preconceptions irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Jo Spain: ‘I rely on the next book, contract or TV show to pay that mortgage. I’ve no guaranteed salary’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Spirit of Revolution. Ireland from Below 1917-23: working-class rebels irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Poem of the Week: Apologies irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson: Giving up the cover of comedy with patchy results irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Sheila Armstrong on RSL Ondaatje Prize shortlist irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

‘Somebody told me recently it was like the Coen Brothers directing PG Wodehouse’: Author Jonny Sweet on his new darkly comic thriller irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Poetry Day Ireland: being a good sport irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Crime fiction: New works from Andrew Hughes, Erin Kelly, Akimitsu Takagi, Sheila Bugler and Jo Spain irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Leeanne O’Donnell: ‘If you go where things are a bit less tamed ... you can catch remnants of ancient stories’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

‘America is nuts about guns … experiencing it for real is different’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books

Salman Rushdie: ‘The first thing that comes into my mind each morning is: I don’t have my right eye’ irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via Irish Times Books