John Banville

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville's novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. On occasion he writes under the pen name Benjamin Black.

From the Review

May 28, 2009: 'The Invader Wore Slippers'

Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939–45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War by Peter Demetz

December 4, 2008: Luminous Memoir of a Lost World

November 20, 2008: The Prime of James Wood

How Fiction Works by James Wood

April 3, 2008: The World's Last Novel

The Executor: A Comedy of Letters by Michael Krüger, translated from the German by John Hargraves

December 6, 2007: A Bright Voice from a Dark Place

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born

June 28, 2007: The Family Pinfold

Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family by Alexander Waugh

March 29, 2007: Translating Rilke: An Exchange

March 1, 2007: Executioner Songs

House of Meetings by Martin Amis

December 21, 2006: Letters from the Heights

Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Correspondence translated from the German by Edward Snow and Michael Winkler

July 13, 2006: In the Luminous Deep

Swithering by Robin Robertson

Slow Air by Robin Robertson

A Painted Field by Robin Robertson

February 23, 2006: Homage to Philip Larkin

Collected Poems (2003) by Philip Larkin, edited and with an introduction by Anthony Thwaite

First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin by Richard Bradford

Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life by Andrew Motion

Collected Poems (1988) by Philip Larkin, edited and with an introduction by Anthony Thwaite

Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985 edited by Anthony Thwaite

Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces, 1955–1982 by Philip Larkin

September 22, 2005: The Furies

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

June 23, 2005: Squash (letter)

May 26, 2005: A Day in the Life

Saturday by Ian McEwan

December 16, 2004: Sentimental Education

Villages by John Updike

December 2, 2004: The Missing Link

Langrishe, Go Down by Aidan Higgins

A Bestiary by Aidan Higgins

Flotsam & Jetsam by Aidan Higgins

April 8, 2004: The Sacrifice

Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake by Carol Loeb Shloss

March 11, 2004: A Double Life

Judge Savage by Tim Parks

February 26, 2004: The Rescue of W.B. Yeats

W.B. Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet 1915–1939 by R.F. Foster

November 6, 2003: Good Man, Bad World

Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor

Inside George Orwell by Gordon Bowker

July 3, 2003: Secret Geometry

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World with essays by Philippe Arbaïzar, Jean Clair, Claude Cookman, Robert Delpire, Peter Galassi, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, Jean Leymarie, and Serge Toubiana, and with translations from the French by Jane Brenton

May 15, 2003: Keeping Busy

The Kick: A Memoir by Richard Murphy

April 10, 2003: By George

Becoming George: The Life of Mrs. W.B. Yeats by Ann Saddlemyer

September 26, 2002: On the Fatal Shore

Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish by Richard Flanagan

May 9, 2002: In the Puddles of the Past

Irish Classics by Declan Kiberd

Poetry & Posterity by Edna Longley

March 14, 2002: 'Cowboys & Indians' (letter)

February 14, 2002: 'Cowboys and Indians'

Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter

October 4, 2001: Fathers and Sons

The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848–1914 by J.W. Burrow

March 29, 2001: The Wild Colonial Boy

True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey

February 8, 2001: Joyce in Bloom

The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904–1920 by John McCourt

August 10, 2000: Coupling

The Married Man by Edmund White

Edmund White: The Burning World by Stephen Barber

The Boy with the Thorn in His Side: A Memoir by Keith Fleming

April 27, 2000: Landscape Artist

Microcosms by Claudio Magris, Translated from the Italian Iain Halliday

April 13, 2000: A Rare Species

Being Dead by Jim Crace

January 20, 2000: Endgame

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

December 16, 1999: The Motherless Child

James Joyce by Edna O'Brien

November 18, 1999: The Tragicomic Dubliner

No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien by Anthony Cronin

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

June 24, 1999: The Friend of Promise

Cyril Connolly: A Life by Jeremy Lewis

January 14, 1999: The Dawn of the Gods

Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India by Roberto Calasso, translated by Tim Parks

November 5, 1998: Nietzsche's Complaint (letter)

August 13, 1998: The Last Days of Nietzsche

Nietzsche in Turin: An Intimate Biography by Lesley Chamberlain

November 20, 1997: A Life Elsewhere

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee

June 12, 1997: The European Irishman

Independent Spirit by Hubert Butler

February 20, 1997: Revelations

Selected Stories by Alice Munro

After Rain by William Trevor

November 14, 1996: The Painful Comedy of Samuel Beckett

Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson

Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist by Anthony Cronin

The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 by Lois Gordon

The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 edited by S.E. Gontarski

Eleutheria by Samuel Beckett, translated by Michael Brodsky

Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett

April 4, 1996: That's Life!

Last Orders by Graham Swift

October 5, 1995: Nabokov's Dark Treasures

The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction by Michael Wood

August 10, 1995: Nice Work

Therapy by David Lodge

Small World: An Academic Romance by David Lodge

April 6, 1995: Fish and Roses

The Monkey Link: A Pilgrimage Novel by Andrei Bitov, translated by Susan Brownsberger

February 2, 1995: The Un-Heimlich Maneuver

The Norton Book of Ghost Stories edited by Brad Leithauser

Women and Ghosts by Alison Lurie

November 3, 1994: War Without Peace

Generations of Winter by Vassily Aksyonov, translated by John Glad, translated by Christopher Morris

June 9, 1994: A Real Funny Guy

The Russian Girl by Kingsley Amis

March 3, 1994: Fatal Attraction

Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein

December 16, 1993: Writing on Life Support

Beckett's Dying Words by Christopher Ricks

Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett

July 15, 1993: Living in the Shadows

Judge on Trial by Ivan Klíma, translated by A.G. Brain

April 8, 1993: Big News from Small Worlds

The Collected Stories by John McGahern

Ulverton by Adam Thorpe

March 4, 1993: An Interview with Salman Rushdie

November 5, 1992: 'Ill Seen Ill Said' (letter)

August 13, 1992: The Last Word

Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett

May 14, 1992: Playing House

A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn

Daughters of Albion by A. N. Wilson

November 21, 1991: Winners

Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer

Playing the Game by Ian Buruma

Asya by Michael Ignatieff

September 26, 1991: Relics

Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria by William Trevor

May 30, 1991: Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Selected Poems by Derek Mahon

Madoc: A Mystery by Paul Muldoon

February 14, 1991: Laughter in the Dark

New World Avenue and Vicinity by Tadeusz Konwicki, translated by Walter Arndt

Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal, translated by Michael Henry Heim

Helping Verbs of the Heart by Péter Esterházy, translated by Michael Henry Heim

December 6, 1990: In Violent Times

Amongst Women by John McGahern

Lies of Silence by Brian Moore

The Innocent by Ian McEwan

October 25, 1990: Portrait of the Critic as a Young Man

Warrenpoint by Denis Donoghue

April 12, 1990: Help Salman Rushdie! (letter)

From New York Review Books

The Snows of Yesteryear The author of Memoirs of an Anti-Semite tells his own story through portraits of the members of his childhood household. "An elegiac tribute to a receding past and a testament to the redemptive powers of memory–a family photography album, beautifully translated into words.—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review

The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings In Hugo von Hofmannsthal's celebrated autobiographical novella a young nobleman reveals to his patron Sir Francis Bacon his particularly modern crisis of spirit.

Troubles Troubles is a hilarious and heartbreaking work by a modern master of the historical novel.

Books by John Banville

Shroud (2003)
Eclipse (2000)
The Untouchable (1997)
Athena: A Novel (1995)
The Broken Jug: After Heinrich Von Kleist (1994)
Ghosts (1993)
Nightspawn (1993)
The Book of Evidence (1989)
Mefisto (1986)
Doctor Copernicus: A Novel (1984)
The Newton Letter: An Interlude (1982)
Kepler, a Novel (1981)
Birchwood (1973)
Long Lankin (1970)