One Sun Only by Camille Bordas: a truly effortless collection
Stories that capture the zeitgeist, without being expressly ‘contemporary’
By Brigid O'Dea
Madeline Cash: ‘Greater truths are often best articulated through humour. The fool can make real change’
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Ausländer - One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile, broken up by forces of hatred and expulsion
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Escape from Capitalism by Clara E Mattei: Dismantling dead ends that stop us from seeking real alternatives
By Sinéad Gibney
New crime fiction: A deliriously fun debut about real estate lust gone wrong, and much more
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Booker winner George Saunders: ‘I can rage against Trump all day long. But is it helping?’
By John Self
Liberal democracy is under threat: these books show why abandoning it would be a mistake
By Vic Duggan
Crucible by John Sayles: An engrossing epic work of historical fiction bolstered by superb dialogue
By NJ McGarrigle
Inhabit the Poem - Last Essays by Helen Vendler: A career of single-minded poetic devotion
By Laura Sheahen
Author Dave Rudden: ‘My earliest memory is passing a Border checkpoint, at once fascinated and terrified by the soldiers’
By Martin Doyle
Possessions by Davina Quinlivan: A ‘fictional memoir’ that makes life hard for itself
By Maija Makela
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