Melanie McDonagh

He was indisputably Albanian, indisputably a national writer, but like all great writers he was both rooted in a particular place and universally comprehensible

There is in fact no consensus about what a shamrock is

It is an embarrassment to advocates of capital punishment and a disgrace to the state

The hotel, still a family affair, but a different family, puts the cake center stage

The displacement of dried fruit by chocolate is a symptom of our increasingly debased tastes