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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jude Cook |Anne Enright |Nikesh Shukla |Leo Robson |Sarah Moss
Jude Cook, author and publisher of Conduit BooksIn Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the languid Lord Henry announces: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”I’m not so sure. During the days after the announcement of my new small press, Conduit Books, the conversation about the balance and representation of women and men in publishing roared back into life.
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2 months ago | 
waterstones.com | I Love You |Ocean Vuong |Sarah Moss |Edward St Aubyn
Posted on 24th April 2025 by Mark Skinner From literary fiction to compelling crime and cracking cookery to the latest history titles, explore the delights on offer this May.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
newyorker.com | Sarah Moss |Dani Shapiro |Maggie Smith |Miranda July
As an actress, Amanda Seyfried regularly inhabits the lives of others, real and imagined. As a reader, too, Seyfried gravitates toward works in which writers take readers “deep inside of their lives, for better, or for worse.” She recently spoke with us about a few titles that raise questions about what it means to be a good daughter, wife, and mother—and that have made her feel less alone. Her comments have been edited and condensed.
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Mar 15, 2025 | 
irishtimes.com | Sarah Moss
Sarah Moss: The men I know have much more demanding haircuts than the one I want, so why am I being charged a fortune?
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
irishtimes.com | Sarah Moss
I write from a family holiday in France. Most of my travel is for work and alone, and even then I can’t help thinking if it would be nice to live in whichever country I’m visiting. We’re all happy with our Irish lives. We have good friends, good neighbours, good schools and jobs, which is what matters most. Compared to most of the world, Ireland’s a very safe place to be starting 2025.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
irishtimes.com | Sarah Moss
My friend and I are guiltily wondering together why we both find it easiest to look after ourselves, to eat well and sleep well and focus properly on what we’re doing, when we’re alone. Although I sometimes long for solitude, when I get it the first day is blissful, the second is fine as long as I can have a long phone conversation and on the third I need real human company. As writers go, I’m a crap introvert.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Sarah Moss
Like many of us, I grew up with the idea that health was an individual responsibility and a moral good. It was “good” to exercise and restrict food, “lazy” or “self-indulgent” to rest and eat for pleasure. In the era when there was still a smoking section on planes (what can they have been thinking?) and we didn’t wear coats on nights out because it would have taken weeks to get the cigarette stench out, people with lung cancer “had only themselves to blame”.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Sarah Moss
Since the British parliament moved on assisted dying, I’ve changed my mind. I hadn’t cared enough to campaign for it, but I was strongly in favour. It will be an issue for the new government here, and it may be one of the issues that looks similarly complicated on both sides of the water.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Sarah Moss
I knit a lot. As any knitter knows, one of the best stages is starting a new project, feeling up yarn and eyeing up daring or beloved colours, planning to expand your skills or enjoy the comfort of competence. You read patterns that include the amount of ‘ease’ in the garment. Ease, in this context, is the space between the clothing and the body. If the garment has to stretch to cover the skin, there is ‘negative ease’, which is what you want for socks and what some people want in a T-shirt.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Sarah Moss
I was avoiding the real news last week and reading instead an article about “Granny heels” which are, apparently, blocky high-heeled shoes in which it’s relatively easy to walk. (Reading this was an abject waste of time.
