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Alice O'Keeffe

Alice O'Keeffe is a literary critic and journalist, and author of On the Up

May 2016

  • The Telegraph Hay Festival<br>HAY-ON-WYE, WALES - MAY 25: A young girl enjoys reading a book in the sun at The Telegraph Hay festival at Dairy Meadows on May 25, 2013 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

    Fully booked: this year’s best literary festivals

  • Meryl Streep as Florence Foster Jenkins in the 2016 film

    Florence Foster Jenkins biography review – why did the singer expose herself to mockery?

April 2016

  • Joanna Connors in conversation with Charlene, the sister of David Francis, who raped Connors in 1984

    I Will Find You by Joanna Connors review – a brutally affecting investigation

    Connors, a reporter, has written a book has two purposes: to convey how rape is experienced by a victim and to delve into the life of her attacker in an attempt to explain what he did

March 2016

  • Various - 2007<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Alex Segre / Rex Features ( 655537bz ) Model released - Teenager hanging around dressed in hoodie clothing, London, England Various - 2007

    Hood by Alison Kinney review – power, anonymity … what do hoods symbolise?

    From executioners in modern-day Florida, to the Ku Klux Klan, to ‘hug a hoodie’ Cameron – this scholarly study explores a complicated cultural history

February 2016

  • Booker prize winning novelist Yann Martel. Commissioned for G2

    The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel – review

  • Tim Parks

    Thomas and Mary: A Love Story by Tim Parks review – a closeup of cracks in a marriage

  • Caroline Jones

    The Spaces in Between by Caroline Jones review – the secret misery of an eating disorder

  • Paul Kalanithi

    When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi review – how to live, by a doctor who died aged 37

November 2015

  • Patti Smith Glastonbury 2015

    M Train by Patti Smith review – into the mind of an artist

    The reigning queen of rock’n’roll reveals her shocking addiction ... to TV detective shows

August 2015

  • Child playing with train set

    How I stopped worrying and learned to love summer holidays with the kids

    Alice O'Keeffe
  • Etgar Keret

    A life in ...
    Etgar Keret: ‘Israelis boycott me as a traitor, and foreigners because I’m Israeli’

July 2015

  • Tobias Jones with his wife Francesca and their children at Windsor Hill Wood.

    A Place of Refuge by Tobias Jones review – an experiment in communal living

    A refreshingly honest account of one couple’s remarkable project: to open their family home to some of society’s most vulnerable people

June 2015

  • VARIOUS

    Stay-at-home mums are heroes. The left should stand up for them more

    Alice O'Keeffe
    Amid the recent debate about working mothers, we progressives have not said clearly enough that those who stay at home are grossly undervalued by society

May 2015

  • Miriam Toews

    A life in ...
    Miriam Toews: ‘I worried people would think, what is wrong with this family?’

    The books interview: The Canadian author of All My Puny Sorrows talks about growing up a Mennonite and how she managed to transform family tragedy into a novel suffused with joy

March 2015

  • 'Lyndsey came to the devastating conclusion that she had developed a severe allergy to light' … a wo

    Girl in the Dark by Anna Lyndsey review – memoir of a devastating condition

    An account of a woman’s acute and isolating sensitivity to light prompts questions about modern medical practices, writes Alice O’Keeffe

November 2014

  • A tin of Farrow & Ball paint.

    The panel
    Has your class changed over the course of your lifetime?

    Franklyn Addo, Archie Bland, Alice O'Keeffe and Richard Seymour

    Franklyn Addo, Archie Bland, Alice O'Keeffe, Richard Seymour: Whether you grew up posh or poor, the chances are you haven't remained in that class. Our panel of writers tell their stories

August 2014

  • Esther Freud at Edinburgh's international book festival earlier this month

    Meet the author
    Esther Freud: 'I realised the book I'd been writing for 18 months was awful'

    The author tells Alice O'Keeffe about her memories of watching her father paint, and how abandoning one novel led to another, about Charles Rennie Mackintosh

June 2014

  • British novelist Maggie Gee: 'I don't feel secure, to put it mildly.'

    Meet the author
    Maggie Gee interview: 'Writing novels is a ghastly profession'

    The novelist tells Alice O'Keeffe about bringing Virginia Woolf back to life and why Hanif Kureishi is wrong about creative writing courses

May 2014

  • 'Challenging': Eimear McBride.

    A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing review – Eimear McBride's daring and dazzling novel

    Eimear McBride's long ignored but now prize-winning experimental novel offers great rewards to persistent readers, writes Alice O'Keefe

February 2014

  • Skippers rummaging near Heathrow

    Skippers ahoy: on the road with the wheelie bin bounty hunters

    Squatters and campaigners hail decision not to prosecute men who took food from Iceland bins, but say concern at levels of waste and food poverty is growing

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