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Roger Boylan

Roger Boylan’s books include Killoyle, The Great Pint-Pulling OlympiadKilloyle Wine and Cheese, and, most recently, The Adorations.

Articles

Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road

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A lost story shows the young writer struggling in Joyce's shadow

Roger Boylan

Steven Moore's The Novel: An Alternative History (1600-1800)

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In Peter Stamm's novels, life is more livable when you stop expecting miracles, and desire succumbs to reality.

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Joseph Roth and the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Julian Barnes asks: How much of what we think makes us special is only a trick of memory?

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Reading Flann in the birthplace of psychoanalysis. 
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On Howard Jacobson, the Jewish Jane Austen.

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Mark Twain tells his own story.

Roger Boylan

The Passions of Arthur Koestler.

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Remembering Beckett twenty years after his death.

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The lives of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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