Author Arundhati Roy: ‘We are actually swimming in a sewer of moral rot’
The Booker-winning novelist on her difficult relationship with her mother, how the Beatles ‘gave her oxygen’, and how ‘everything that Trump is doing now already happened in India in 2014′
By John Self
New crime fiction: cynical pitch-black comedy reinvigorates the spy fiction genre
A breezy essay from Anthony Quinn; a novel to appeal to the mind by Craig Jordan-Baker; and Celia de Fréine’s first short story collection in English
Ten years of DLR LexIcon in Dún Laoghaire: ‘People thought it was a vanity project and too much money’
Right here in Kilkenny there was a significant queer Georgian revolt
Greyhound by Joanna Pocock: Not enough humanity to merit author’s sorrow
Poem of the Week: Pity About You
Inherited Fate by Noémi Orvos-Tóth: a welcome deepening of how we understand the human predicament
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So You Want to Own Greenland? Lessons from the Vikings to Trump: A much sought-after property
By Andrew Lynch
The Lie of the Land by John Gibbons and Positive Tipping Points by Tim Lenton: Engaging, detailed, terrifying
By Pádraic Fogarty
Julia Kelly: ‘My mum died swimming in the Galápagos at 71... it was a strangely beautiful end for her’
By Martin Doyle
The Two Roberts by Damian Barr: Eloquent imagining of the lives of artists Colquhoun and MacBryde
By Neil Hegarty
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