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‘You’re much more likely to be an incel if you live with your parents, if you can’t find a stable job’
The Things We Never Say: Elizabeth Strout taps into something very alive in the human psyche
Frida Slattery as Herself, by Ana Kinsella: It’s easy to see why this debut excited editors
A new Wild Atlantic Way? How nine ‘literary routes’ could form a map of Irish writing
RTÉ: Saints, Scholars and Scandals by Shane Ross - bringing a sharp eye to barter accounts and clandestine payments
The Nuremberg Women by Natalie Livingstone: Memory always a question of where we choose to look
Claire Fuller: I changed career in my 40s. You can make this big shift
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Upward Bound by Woody Brown: A non-verbal autistic man’s valuable appreciation of humanity
By Helena Mulkerns
The Left and the Lucky by Willy Vlautin: Portrait of an unusual friendship and the acts that carry them
By Desmond Traynor
When The World Sleeps by Francesca Albanese: Effortless schooling on intricacies behind Gaza headlines
By Sinéad Gibney
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer serves up history with a human heart
By John Walshe
Juliano Zaffino: It is never not surreal to have inspired Florence Welch by something I wrote
By Martin Doyle
Gordon Brown: Power with Purpose – what has happened to leadership motivated by seriousness?
By Matthew O’Toole
The Fallen - The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Legacy of Silence: A perversion of any basic humanity
By Catriona Crowe
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