Fearless! Vincent Browne’s Magill and Ireland in the 1980s: Skilful acknowledgment of a valuable legacy
Kevin Rafter narrates tale of an Ireland seeking public accountability, a new assertiveness in the media, and impetus towards liberalism and tolerance
By Conor Brady
Trespasses author Louise Kennedy: ‘I lived on adrenaline all my life from kitchens’
New poetry: ‘The most horrifying, exquisite and staggering poems I have ever read’
Louise O’Neill: ‘The rhetoric around dating was that for women over 35, you may as well be dead’
Happy, Thank You. More, Please: A candid story of learning to value your own happiness
We Shall Outlast Them - Putin’s Global Campaign to Defeat the West: convincing insights on Russian statecraft
Poem of the Week: An Uncrowned King
Kevin Powers: ‘I was in the US army. I knew I was going to have to go to war’
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Love and Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food by Charlotte Wood – Cosy middle-class comforts
By Mei Chin
Compelling and unsettling: The Last Years of Edna O’Brien by her son Carlo Gébler
By Margaret Kelleher
Fiction in translation: Hafni Says by Danish writer Helle Helle is close to perfection
By Catherine Taylor
Anita Brookner: Art & Life by Hermione Lee – A loving, careful and worthwhile biography of an evasive life
By John Self
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