A Golden Globe-winning film starring Paul Mescal and Joe Alwyn makes its way to Netflix today. Directed by Chloé Zhao, the ...

The itinerant American poet Elizabeth Bishop published “The Map” in 1935. “Land lies in water,” the poem begins, a pun on the lies of representation. “It is shadowed green.” In Bishop’s hands, ...

Maggie O'Farrell's knack for portraying raw grief is undeniable, but her books encompass a vast emotional spectrum, and ...

The Academy Award-nominated writer dives into Irish history in Land, revealing how the Great Famine changed the country ...

Maggie O'Farrell says she wanted to tell the whole story of Ireland just by one plot of land As I ring the doorbell of Maggie O'Farrell's Edinburgh home, I wonder with some trepidation whether the ...

It is the kind of cartography that Maggie O’Farrell has always been fascinated by: not just the sort that traces landscapes, ...

Maggie O’Farrell tells David Robinson why her latest novel, Land, is so close to her heart​ ...

Maggie O'Farrell's tenth novel, Land, is likely to appear on every Best Of and Must Read list for Summer 2026, and deservedly ...

Set in the aftermath of the famine, the Hamnet author’s family saga folds in myth and folklore ‘His father was ever a man of few words,” begins Maggie O’Farrell’s 10th novel, a lengthy and ambitious ...

O'Farrell originally set out to write a children's book about two sisters who learn to accept their differences, but Min's speech impediment soon took over the story. "It's very rare in fiction, any ...

The Ireland Funds has announced the recipients of its two 2026 literary awards, celebrating both the achievement and the ...