Jemimah Wei’s The Original Daughter: Masterful in depiction of pettiness and codependency
Although bleak and at times sprawling, author’s debut novel is tender, surprising and immersive
By Maya Kulukundis
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett: A return to Mississippi
Imagine a world where saints roam free, among us, on the bus or in TK Maxx
‘Ireland means a lot to us in India with our own freedom struggle,’ Gandhi’s grandson says
Make Strange by Niamh Campbell: Haunting portrayal of maternal anxiety nested in an unnerving premise
Marilyn and Her Books by Gail Crowther: A bizarrely retrograde portrait of the actor as more than a ‘dumb blonde’
Hamnet’s Maggie O’Farrell: ‘I turned down an OBE because I didn’t want British Empire as part of my name’
New poetry: Emma McKervey; Tim MacGabhann; Shannon Kuta Kelly; and Rishi Dastidar
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POETRY
Meena Kandasamy’s message to women on online misogyny: ‘You need to meet it with brazenness’
By Róisín Ingle
The Queer Bookshelf: A Reader’s Guide – a useful framework, but by its nature a book of omission
By Neil Hegarty
Short story: ‘Every time you tell me I’m pretty, the more comfortable I feel in my own skin’
By Claire Harty
This Poor Book: A Poem by Fanny Howe – a radical final act by an extraordinary Irish-American
By Alice Lyons
Elites and Democracy by Hugo Drochon: Heavyweight contribution to long-running debate
By Andrew Lynch
Author Stephen Daly: ‘So little is acknowledged of the wounds people still carry from the past’
By Martin Doyle
Short story: ‘The octopus felt the weight of every lost life. All three of its hearts ached silently’
By Marysia Tomczak
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