Barry Pierce

Take a famous figure, literally anyone from Peter Falk to Charles II of Spain. Then blow out their hair, plum…

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Gus Van Sant is a director who has never forgotten his independent roots. When not helming multi-awarding win…

The Booker nominee talks her debut novel No One is Talking About This, being the Booker’s ‘Internet Writer’, …

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There are few writers like Dennis Cooper. To read his novels is to gaze into the bleakest depths of humanity …

Should anyone under the age of 40 have a memoir? Or, actually, should anyone under the age of 40 and who isn'…

"I feel hugely nostalgic for 2001," Paris Lees tells me over a phone call on a characteristically bland Tuesd…

Lucy Caldwell's latest collection of short stories, Intimacies, has taken nearly a year to get to us. Origina…

We've all spent a great deal of time in lines recently. Queuing for the supermarket, queuing for the café - i…

Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows by Sophie White Tramp Press £12.99 pp224 If you've ever waded into t…

Cork author Billy O'Callaghan performs a sort of ventriloquism in Life Sentences. Delving into his own past f…

The career of the modern writer: write a great work (or, in some cases, just write a work); wait for some ran…

Undernose Farm By Harry Crosbie Lilliput Press, €12 He is the man who turned a disused railway station into I…

Whether you like it or not, it's looking like 2021 will be the year we all get back into reading. Of course, …

It's that old joke, isn't it? How can you tell if someone went to Trinity? Don't worry, they'll tell you. I'v…

I think it goes without saying that 2020 was a year. Jesy left Little Mix, Derek Acorah died, people kept try…

How do you solve a problem like the Bildungsroman? Whereas some literary genres tend to fluctuate in populari…

The walls of David Bailey's studio are replete with some of his most famous shots. Kate Moss with her hair ba…

King Kong Theory By Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne Fitzcarraldo Editions, £10.99 When I grow u…

Never let anyone claim that being a critic is a soft job, I constantly put my life on the line. For example, …

It has to be one of the strangest ever career moves that Graham Norton, once a gloriously trashy comedian and…

You're in New York, it's 1962, and you're in the audience for the premiere of Aaron Copland's newest work, Co…