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Books

Book Reviews   •   Fighting Words
Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer – Heaping on the scorn
Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer – Heaping on the scorn
By Rory Kiberd
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The Books Quiz: What was BookTok sensation and bestselling author Colleen Hoover’s first novel?
The Books Quiz: What was BookTok sensation and bestselling author Colleen Hoover’s first novel?
By Martin Doyle

If the police are no longer trusted then how can they be the heroes of crime novels?

Debut crime writer Charlotte Vassell’s solution is a detective who doesn’t trust the system either

By Charlotte Vassell

Books newsletter: Book deal for debut author; Ennis Book Club Festival; Limerick Literary Festival


All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield’s extraordinary art


Did James Joyce get a tip for the horses from WB Yeats?


Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women – Gone to the bad


A history of Ireland’s Military Archives


‘It was a witch hunt’: A Rose of Tralee finalist’s novel changed publishing. But not how she hoped


A writing life’s long afterglow: How EM Forster inspired Lucy Caldwell to finish her story


Short Stories

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The Horse, a new short story by Sam Blake
The Horse, a new short story by Sam Blake
By Sam Blake
Christmas Story, a new story by Eva Kenny
Christmas Story, a new story by Eva Kenny
By Eva Kenny
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Poetry

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Meena Kandasamy Q&A: ‘I went to where Sylvia Plath is buried, and sat there hugging her gravestone’
Meena Kandasamy Q&A: ‘I went to where Sylvia Plath is buried, and sat there hugging her gravestone’
By Martin Doyle
Obituary Kevin Higgins: A poet with forensic insight and that common touch
Obituary Kevin Higgins: A poet with forensic insight and that common touch
Poem of the Week: Jonah and I
Poem of the Week: Jonah and I
By John F Deane

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