Des Bishop: ‘I never felt the grief with my dad like I felt with my mother’
American comedian, lockdown was preceded by his mother’s death. The impact was profound – but it opened the way to a new life ...
At the pub with novelist Eimear McBride
The World’s End pub in Camden is about a third full when I arrive on a damp Friday lunchtime. A man wearing a wide-brimmed felt hat sips a pint of dark ale. Another with a rat’s tail hanging down his ...