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The writer recommends four books about the nuances of family life.
Oprah Winfrey has chosen a novel with a timely theme for her latest book club pick. Bruce Holsinger’s “Culpability” is a ...
This adaptation of Claire Keegan's Booker-nominated novel, Small Things Like These, tells a heartbreaking story using an undercurrent of menace and Cillian Murphy's expressive eyes.
With almost 2,000 votes cast, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (2021) was chosen by readers as the best book. While the majority of voters were Irish, people from 26 other countries are ...
A snapshot of popular books.1 JAMES (Doubleday, $28). By Percival Everett. A reimagining of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” told from the point of view of Jim as he flees from enslavement.
There are so many good Irish writers out there but for my next book I would choose Foster by Claire Keegan, which I loved. She touches on such traumatic periods in Irish history, but in the most ...
In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Small Things Like These,” a meditative Christmastime novella about a man confronting a local horror.
Ron Charles review: In Ingvild Rishoi’s novella, two Norwegian girls with an alcoholic father begin working at a Christmas tree stand to scrape by.
The acclaimed Irish writer Claire Keegan may have published just five books in over twenty years, but each of the publications has won awards, critical success and armies of devoted readers.
Foster by Claire Keegan, a short book, granted, but not a false note or distraction in the writing. I wolfed it down and had to reread it again in order to savor and admire.