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The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine: A deeply human novel of reckoning and love
The Lebanese author makes writing look easy, though only a master craftsperson could produce this book
By Sally Hayden
Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray: Compelling take on queer adolescence and platonic parenthood
Scifi/fantasy: Dave Rudden’s Sister Wake a politically charged epic that draws on Irish history
Ireland’s fascination with ancient Greece, from our origin legends to Joyce’s Ulysses
John Boyne’s review of Crux by Gabriel Tallent: It’s refreshing to read positive aspects of youth
Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization – Accessible history of a new society
Mark Haddon’s life-affirming brush with death: ‘The grim reaper is not all he’s made out to be’
After all these years in Berlin, I’m back in Dublin as a tourist in my hometown
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New poetry: Tom French reclaims calm, Susanna Galbraith offers a visually arresting debut
By Declan Ryan
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By Martin Doyle
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By Miriam Balanescu
Celtic Magic: A Practitioner’s Guide by Brigid Ehrmantraut - Was the wicker man real, as Julius Caesar claimed?
By Adrienne Murphy
Made in America by Edward Stourton: Patchy illumination of ‘dark history’ of Trump’s rise
By Daniel Geary
Out of the Blue ... Pink: Pat Ingoldsby collection a beautiful monument to ‘pirate of poetry’
By Michael O’Loughlin
Swiftynomics: At times reading like a self-help book, it carries hefty political analysis
By Sinéad Gibney
Intimate Power: fiercely local, profoundly international biography of city of Liverpool
By Adam Wyeth
Irish Romanticism: A Literary History by Claire Connolly – A lively tradition that still has much to teach us
By Christina Morin
Esther is Now Following You by Tanya Sweeney: A joyride that’s challenging not to finish in one go
By Mei Chin
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