The Kate Clanchy affair: Was the ‘posh do-gooder’ ever really cancelled?
The still-bubbling controversy around Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me is the subject of a fine BBC podcast
November YA titles: surviving real and mystical horrors
America’s Middle East by Marc Lynch: An excellent and angry analysis of an American mess
Annemarie Ní Churreáin: ‘There’s a deep respect embedded in Gaeltacht culture for troublemakers’
Borderline Fiction by Derek Owusu: Ambitious novel reaches almost spiritual heights
Druid Theatre: Fifty Years by Patrick Lonergan – a thorough and persuasive account of Druid’s first half century
The Hour of the Predator: Exposing this era that facilitates relationships between modern ‘Borgias’
The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: fear must not blind us to our interlinked fates
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