Evie Gaughan: AI companies are missing the entire point of writing or reading a book
There is a visceral sense of betrayal when it becomes clear we are being convinced to accept slop and be okay with it
By Evie Gaughan
Crime fiction: Asteroids, serial killers and a Hitchcock flight of fantasy
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Fed Up by Daniel Lieberman: Exploring fad diets claiming to solve the riddle of the human body
White Elephant: A big novel with big questions
The Broken King by Michael Thomas: An artfully relentless memoir
The Anniversary review: Andrea Bajani’s haunting novel of family estrangement
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POETRY
Inequality, The View from Manywheres: Populist leaders promise a wonderland that does not exist
By Sinéad Gibney
Solace House: Unsettling, ambitious novel that blends Gothic unease with cosmic horror
By Julia Kelly
Flirting with Evil – The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation: A sprawling but intelligent history
By Andrew Lynch
Your husband is in an office wearing clean clothes and you are on a bus to Donegal wearing a nappy
By Alice Ryan
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