As the maître d’ gracefully ushered me to my table, the air buzzed with anticipation. This wasn’t just a meal; it was a ...
There is a charity car boot sale at Y Sifil (formerly Bettws Civil Club) on Friday evening. The event is in aid of Turner ...
Logo Opera Italiana is in the Air Opera Italiana photo credit: Getty Images / Janice Yim “The Serenade at Sunset: Opera for Your ...
CULTURE lovers, bargain hunters and family pets are catered for in Newport on a busy weekend of activities. There are car boot sales to start and finish the weekend while there will be opera in the ...
Through alternating narratives of two brothers, the novel shows what happens when we do not know what to do with our grief.
At the end of each of Rooney’s novels, love triumphs partly because it might be the only form of solidarity, the ...
Saturday’s pages previewed; Wendy Erskine, Fíona Scarlett, Seán Farrell book deals; TCD arts festival; Italian book festival; ...
There was a time in Knoxville’s music past when we treated the accomplishments of the University of Tennessee Symphony ...
And so to Intermezzo, Rooney’s fourth. A lawyer in his mid-30s, Peter, sleeps with (and gives money to) a 23-year-old student, Naomi; his younger brother, Ivan, a chess prodigy who is around ...
Early in Sally Rooney’s new novel Intermezzo, one of the central characters — Peter, a 32-year-old lawyer in Dublin — finds himself weeping in the street some weeks after his father’s death.
Certainly, before Intermezzo, I had grown used to the uniformity of Rooney’s sentences, the affectlessness of which razed any false separations between the flow of capital and the freedom to be ...
It’s maybe the summer’s most sought-after galley: Sally Rooney’s “Intermezzo,” her fourth novel, has a lot of hype to live up to. The Irish writer — known for exploring interpersonal ...