ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
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Exiles by Donall Mac Amhlaigh
Poignant narrative of Irish migrants in Britain in the 1950s
KEITH RICHMOND relishes a superbly conceived modern version of Aeschylus’ drama of murderous family succession
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a minimalist installation that prompts intriguing connotations
FIONA O’CONNOR questions the achievement of this year’s Orwell prize winner for political fiction
LEO BOIX reviews two powerful Latin American novels in which myth and crime fiction expose the deadly consequences of patriarchy, clandestine abortion and state violence
New releases from Laura Veirs, The Waterboys, and Yard Act
Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
GIVEN the extent of Irish migration to Britain, the length of its history and the volume of workers crossing the Irish Sea, surprisingly little has been written about the phenomenon.
Few Irish novels chronicle the displacements to the great metropolises of Britain and this is the more
striking an omission from a small nation teeming with world-class writers.
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