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Where the Music Had to Go: Bob Dylan, The Beatles and the making of modern pop mythology
Jim Windolf’s dual biography revisits rock’s most fertile creative collision
By Peter Murphy
Ben Lerner: ‘I want us to think of the book as another hand-held device’
Sara Baume on the best new fiction in translation
Books in brief: Black Bag; Afloat; and You Want What We’ve Got: Big Tech v Big Journalism
Corpses are everywhere in Irish literature
A Plot to Die for by Ardal O’Hanlon: Smart and funny
Dirty Dancing: The Inside Story of the Irish-Dancing Cheating Scandal
Famesick by Lena Dunham: Health hazards of the Hollywood dream machine
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POETRY
Rosemary Hennigan: ‘Fiction gives us space to explore life in all its multifarious complexities’
By Martin Doyle
The Story of Us: Independent Ireland and the 1926 Census – illuminating essays on our first count
By Christopher Kissane
I’m in a WhatsApp group with female crime writers. It’s called the Irish Murderesses
By Claire Coughlan
Understanding Homelessness in Ireland Since Independence: A gruelling but valuable history
By Andrew Lynch
Nuclear Weapons - An International History by David Holloway: Serious treatment of the fundamentally absurd
By Robert McNamara
Author Danielle McLaughlin: ‘I’m really interested in whether we are using rituals or they are using us’
By Gemma Tipton
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy: observations, reflections and a missing cat
By Alice Blackhurst
Crime fiction: Anne Cadwallader blends politics, violence, law and media in gripping debut
By Declan Burke
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