Patrick Kavanagh and the beat poets: ‘I’ve always seen him as a punk’
Kavanagh Weekend 2026 will explore the Irish poet’s US adventures and his affinity with Allen Ginsberg and the outsider spirit of the beats
By Jane Coyle
The Castle by Jon Ronson: A great attempt to unpick modern masculinity in the digital age
A Thought without Collision by Adrian Duncan: A sublime and fascinating exploration of how people teach and learn
Author Naeem Murr: ‘My stories emerge out of my Irish mother’s silence and the silence of my dead father’
New poetry: Frank Ormsby’s tremendous poems loom out of darkness, shot with stars, lit with sound
The Salt King by Natasha Pulley: Overwhelming darkness leavened by shining dialogue
Author Meg Mason: ‘It’s really warping, all these people who don’t know you, who feel like they do’
Reds: A Global History of Communism by Paul Mason – the problem of revisionism and working-class awareness
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The Fate of the World: A History and Future of the Climate Crisis: A sobering narrative
By John Gibbons
Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction – elegant, ambitious and very smart
By Mei Chin
The World’s Reformation: A story combining academic authority with gripping readability
By Andrew Roycroft
Bytes and Bullets: Study of AI arms race is meticulously researched and deeply disturbing
By Tom Clonan
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