Laura Hackett

Sometimes essay collections have an air of an identity crisis about them. The bad ones are a mess of disparate ideas without a theme or a singular voice. The wo

A look across the bar, a whisper in the ear, a touch on the arm — the essential ingredients of romance can’t be turned into metrics, right? Wrong, it turns out.

These two campus thrillers show we are in a new age of writing, guided by the algorithm

There’s something rotten in the state of Florida — Dizz Tate’s debut novel captures the torture of female adolescence

This debut novel about an obsessed wife joins the ranks of Gone Girl and Jane Eyre

This tale of a famous writer and his neglected family is Enright’s best in years

The country’s ‘blue lights’ cops check for bombs under their family cars and never sit with their backs to a door. Now a calamitous data breach has made life even more perilous, they tell Laura Hackett

The letters of Seamus Heaney reveal the pranks the poet played on his friends, as well as moments of panic and despair

Clair Wills discovered she had a secret cousin and set out to find the truth about her Irish family in this powerful memoir

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