John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, Eclipse, The Sea (winner of the Man Booker Prize), and Ancient Light. As Benjamin Black he has written six crime novels, including Vengeance.
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Study the Panther!
January 10, 2013
Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the German and with an introduction by Mark Harman
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Rebel, Hero, Martyr
October 25, 2012
The Dream of the Celt
by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
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Bizarre & Wonderful Strindberg
June 21, 2012
Strindberg: A Life
by Sue Prideaux
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Beckett: Storming for Beauty
March 22, 2012
The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume II: 1941–1956
edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn, and Lois More Overbeck
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The Most Entertaining Philosopher
October 27, 2011
The Heart of William James
edited and with an introduction by Robert Richardson
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Living Ghosts
November 11, 2010
Human Chain
by Seamus Heaney
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The Still Mysterious Enchanter
July 15, 2010
Speak, Nabokov
by Michael Maar, translated from the German by Ross Benjamin
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Against the North Wall
April 8, 2010
Point Omega
by Don DeLillo
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Emerson: ‘A Few Inches from Calamity’
December 3, 2009
First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process
by Robert D. Richardson
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‘The Invader Wore Slippers’
May 28, 2009
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Luminous Memoir of a Lost World
December 4, 2008
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The Prime of James Wood
November 20, 2008
How Fiction Works
by James Wood
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The World’s Last Novel
April 3, 2008
The Executor: A Comedy of Letters
by Michael Krüger, translated from the German by John Hargraves
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A Bright Voice from a Dark Place
December 6, 2007
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson, translated from the Norwegian by Anne Born
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The Family Pinfold
June 28, 2007
Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family
by Alexander Waugh
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Translating Rilke: An Exchange
March 29, 2007
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Executioner Songs
March 1, 2007
House of Meetings
by Martin Amis
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Letters from the Heights
December 21, 2006
Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé: The Correspondence
translated from the German by Edward Snow and Michael Winkler
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In the Luminous Deep
July 13, 2006
Swithering
by Robin Robertson
Slow Air
by Robin Robertson
A Painted Field
by Robin Robertson
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Homage to Philip Larkin
February 23, 2006
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
Collected Poems (1988)
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life
by Andrew Motion
Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces, 1955–1982
by Philip Larkin
Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940–1985
edited by Anthony Thwaite
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The Furies
September 22, 2005
Beyond Black
by Hilary Mantel
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Squash
June 23, 2005
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A Day in the Life
May 26, 2005
Saturday
by Ian McEwan
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Sentimental Education
December 16, 2004
Villages
by John Updike
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The Missing Link
December 2, 2004
Langrishe, Go Down
by Aidan Higgins
A Bestiary
by Aidan Higgins
Flotsam & Jetsam
by Aidan Higgins
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The Sacrifice
April 8, 2004
Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake
by Carol Loeb Shloss
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A Double Life
March 11, 2004
Judge Savage
by Tim Parks
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The Rescue of W.B. Yeats
February 26, 2004
W.B. Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet 1915–1939
by R.F. Foster
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Good Man, Bad World
November 6, 2003
Orwell: The Life
by D.J. Taylor
Inside George Orwell
by Gordon Bowker
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Secret Geometry
July 3, 2003
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
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Keeping Busy
May 15, 2003
The Kick: A Memoir
by Richard Murphy
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By George
April 10, 2003
Becoming George: The Life of Mrs. W.B. Yeats
by Ann Saddlemyer
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On the Fatal Shore
September 26, 2002
Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish
by Richard Flanagan
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In the Puddles of the Past
May 9, 2002
Irish Classics
by Declan Kiberd
Poetry & Posterity
by Edna Longley
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‘Cowboys & Indians’
March 14, 2002
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‘Cowboys and Indians’
February 14, 2002
Anthony Blunt: His Lives
by Miranda Carter
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Fathers and Sons
October 4, 2001
The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848–1914
by J.W. Burrow
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The Wild Colonial Boy
March 29, 2001
True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey
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Joyce in Bloom
February 8, 2001
The Years of Bloom: James Joyce in Trieste, 1904–1920
by John McCourt
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Coupling
August 10, 2000
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
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Landscape Artist
April 27, 2000
Microcosms
by Claudio Magris, Translated from the Italian Iain Halliday
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A Rare Species
April 13, 2000
Being Dead
by Jim Crace
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Endgame
January 20, 2000
Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee
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The Motherless Child
December 16, 1999
James Joyce
by Edna O'Brien
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The Tragicomic Dubliner
November 18, 1999
No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien
by Anthony Cronin
At Swim-Two-Birds
by Flann O'Brien
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The Friend of Promise
June 24, 1999
Cyril Connolly: A Life
by Jeremy Lewis
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The Dawn of the Gods
January 14, 1999
Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
by Roberto Calasso, translated by Tim Parks
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Nietzsche’s Complaint
November 5, 1998
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The Last Days of Nietzsche
August 13, 1998
Nietzsche in Turin: An Intimate Biography
by Lesley Chamberlain
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A Life Elsewhere
November 20, 1997
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee
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The European Irishman
June 12, 1997
Independent Spirit by Hubert Butler
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Revelations
February 20, 1997
Selected Stories by Alice Munro
After Rain by William Trevor
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The Painful Comedy of Samuel Beckett
November 14, 1996
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
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That’s Life!
April 4, 1996
Last Orders by Graham Swift
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Nabokov’s Dark Treasures
October 5, 1995
The Magician’s Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction by Michael Wood
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Nice Work
August 10, 1995
Therapy by David Lodge
Small World: An Academic Romance by David Lodge
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Fish and Roses
April 6, 1995
The Monkey Link: A Pilgrimage Novel by Andrei Bitov, translated by Susan Brownsberger
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The Un-Heimlich Maneuver
February 2, 1995
The Norton Book of Ghost Stories
edited by Brad Leithauser
Women and Ghosts by Alison Lurie
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War Without Peace
November 3, 1994
Generations of Winter by Vassily Aksyonov, translated by John Glad, translated by Christopher Morris
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A Real Funny Guy
June 9, 1994
The Russian Girl by Kingsley Amis
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Fatal Attraction
March 3, 1994
Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein
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Writing on Life Support
December 16, 1993
Beckett’s Dying Words by Christopher Ricks
Dream of Fair to Middling Women by Samuel Beckett
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Living in the Shadows
July 15, 1993
Judge on Trial by Ivan Klíma, translated by A.G. Brain
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Big News from Small Worlds
April 8, 1993
The Collected Stories by John McGahern
Ulverton by Adam Thorpe
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An Interview with Salman Rushdie
March 4, 1993
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‘Ill Seen Ill Said’
November 5, 1992
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The Last Word
August 13, 1992
Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett
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Playing House
May 14, 1992
A Landing on the Sun by Michael Frayn
Daughters of Albion by A. N. Wilson
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Winners
November 21, 1991
Jump and Other Stories by Nadine Gordimer
Playing the Game by Ian Buruma
Asya by Michael Ignatieff
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Relics
September 26, 1991
Two Lives: Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria by William Trevor
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Slouching Toward Bethlehem
May 30, 1991
Selected Poems
by Derek Mahon
Madoc: A Mystery by Paul Muldoon
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Laughter in the Dark
February 14, 1991
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
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In Violent Times
December 6, 1990
Amongst Women
by John McGahern
Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
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Portrait of the Critic as a Young Man
October 25, 1990
Warrenpoint by Denis Donoghue
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Help Salman Rushdie!
April 12, 1990
by Peter Demetz