Eimear McBride
Eimear McBride: ‘I despise wafty, goalless female protagonists’
The novelist on growing out of DH Lawrence, the joy of James Joyce and the sound of WB Yeats
Eimear McBride
02, Sep, 2022 @9:00 AM
The Guardian view on James Joyce’s Ulysses: a 100-year-old masterpiece | Editorial
Editorial: Bloomsday, the annual celebration of this great Dublin novel, is a good moment to reflect on its enduring significance
Editorial
10, Jun, 2022 @5:25 PM
Top 10 books about performance – the lives of actors and musicians | Imogen Crimp
The challenge of capturing the triumphs and crushing failures of the stage and concert hall in words has been taken on by writers from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf and Eimear McBride
Imogen Crimp
27, Apr, 2022 @2:28 PM
Something Out of Place by Eimear McBride review – a howl of despair hard to put into words
The novelist adds her voice to the growing trend for feminist essays with a variable collection of thoughts on the endless shaming of women through their bodies
Johanna Thomas-Corr
15, Aug, 2021 @6:00 AM
Eimear McBride: ‘Women grapple with shame because we’re held to a higher standard’
The novelist on her first book of nonfiction – about women and disgust – and the complexities of prize culture
Rachel Cooke
01, Aug, 2021 @8:30 AM
Tiger King and a bloody mary: Hilary Mantel, Simon Armitage and other writers on lockdown life
Simon Armitage pogos to neo-punk, Anne Enright craves for Cary Grant, The Seventh Seal cheers up Julian Barnes, Diana Evans works out to hip-hop and Jeanette Winterson talks to herself … writers reveal how they’re surviving the corona crisis
Compiled by Lisa Allardice
03, Apr, 2020 @1:58 PM
Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride review – an immersive inner journey
In a series of anonymous hotel rooms, a woman reflects on romantic loss and the instability of identity, in the latest novel from the Girl Is a Half-formed Thing author
Alex Clark
05, Feb, 2020 @9:00 AM
Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride review – evasive and claustrophobic
Eimear McBride’s tale of a woman drifting from one hotel to another leaves our reviewer scratching her head
Holly Williams
28, Jan, 2020 @7:00 AM
Eimear McBride: ‘Women are really angry. I feel a deep, burning sense of injustice at the way women are treated’
Her modernist debut explored the trauma of a young woman, while her latest novel examines the loneliness of middle age. The novelist talks about powering fiction with fury
Lisa Allardice
24, Jan, 2020 @11:58 AM
From The Big Short to Normal People: the books that defined the decade
It began with the fallout from the global financial meltdown and ended with two women sharing the Booker. Which titles shaped the last 10 years?
Alex Clark
26, Dec, 2019 @10:00 AM
On my radar: Eimear McBride’s cultural highlights
The author of A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing on Booker-winner Anna Burns, musician Alasdair Roberts, and her favourite bakery
Kathryn Bromwich
20, Jan, 2019 @10:00 AM
Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro and Hilary Mantel top poll of best UK and Irish authors
Critics, academics and authors vote to find ‘the new Elizabethans’, to correct the tendency to champion older authors as the literary establishment
Alison Flood
05, Apr, 2018 @12:29 PM
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