Fed Up by Daniel Lieberman: Exploring fad diets claiming to solve the riddle of the human body
Lieberman points out that losing weight is not simply the opposite process of gaining weight
By Dean van Nguyen
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
Crosbhealach an Cheoil: Crucial Irish traditional music conference revisited
We Are Not Machines; Users; The Nerd Reich: New books examine the wreckage caused by big tech
Inequality, The View from Manywheres: Populist leaders promise a wonderland that does not exist
Solace House: Unsettling, ambitious novel that blends Gothic unease with cosmic horror
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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
‘Build up an extreme well of confidence’: Daniel Kraus on getting in the writing zone
By Martin Doyle
A Chorus of Ears by Denise Riley: Enjoy the company of an egregiously intelligent companion
By Mícheál McCann
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