Kwame Anthony Appiah – The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity review
This volume has thematic unity going for it, but in other respects it is hamstrung
Review: The Schism of ’68: Catholicism, Contraception and Humanae Vitae in Europe, 1945-1975
Alana Harris’s work reminds us how intellectually insular Ireland was, even in the 1960s
Yes by Anne Patterson review: Debut novel with nurse’s insight
Story of stroke patient focuses on how deep personal crisis can inspire self-reflection
The Good Friday Agreement review – writing on the North with the clarity of youth
Siobhán Fenton’s look at the past 20 years paints in contributions which others have neglected
Edge of Chaos review: So, why is the political system failing?
Paschal Donohoe considers whether the author sees any intrinsic value in democracy
The Value of Everything review: How to end the we make, they take economy
Mariana Mazzucato is sure the economic forces that affect our lives can serve the public interest again
Poetry and prose by Martina Evans, Ailbhe Darcy and Paula Meehan
‘Now We Can Talk Openly About Men’, ‘Insistence’, and Ireland Chair lectures
Sharp review: For those female US writers ‘too smart for their own good’
Some strained handovers, but Michelle Dean has assembled an impressive cast
Milkman by Anna Burns review: Impressive, wordy and often funny
Anna Burns’s novel is a story of Belfast and its sins, but it is also a story of anywhere
Brendan O’Regan: Irish Visionary, Innovator, Peacemaker
Book is both a history of the economic development of the mid-West as well as a biography
The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath review
Narrative focuses on Leslie Jamison’s affair with alcohol, a reciprocal act of intoxication
Catholic Boy review: Author’s own sense of Belfast shines through short stories
Hurricane Higgins, sectariation tour guides and the Disappeared all feature in Rosemary Jenkinson’s collection
The Order of Time review: Where physics and philosophy meet
Exquisite translation captures Carlo Rovelli’s beautiful and intricate messages
Kudos review: A novel of ideas, people and stories
Rachel Cusk’s tales is intelligent, original in form and content, and brilliantly engaging
To Throw Away Unopened review: Viv Albertine’s eye-watering honesty
Sinéad Gleeson on the former Slits guitarist’s excavation of the lives of her parents
The answering voice: Irish poets rewrite the classics
Translating Ovid, Virgil, Homer and Sophocles has accompanied Irish literature’s shift to an increasingly global outlook
A Higher Loyalty review: James Comey has a story to tell. It’s very persuasive
The former FBI director doesn’t his mince words about President Trump
From a Low and Quiet Sea review: a writer who has never met a bore
Donal Ryan can blow attractive life into a character no matter how compromised, mean or dreary
Inside the mind of Vladimir Putin: two takes on the Russian president
Shaun Walker charts Putin’s mission to fill the Soviet void; Michel Eltchaninoff traces Putinism
A Moonless, Starless Sky review: a diligent but at times artless portrayal
Ed O’Loughlin on Alexis Okeowo’s account of ordinary Africans fighting extremism
The Friendly Ones review: Philip Hensher skilfully combines his twin themes
John Boyne on a novel of family life, exile and conflict between siblings
Ireland 1916-2016 review – rigorous, accessible and often irreverent
Roy Foster and others show the humanities’ role in urgent contemporary debate
Ireland’s Great Hunger: the Famine Folios show how hard a story it is to tell
Parts of this series are original and provocative. Others are missed opportunities
Rise Above! Letters from Tyrone Guthrie review: an admirable collection
Fintan O’Toole on Christopher Fitz-Simon’s edition of the great theatre director’s delightfully lively letters
Everything Must Go review: Jenny Fran Davis’s millennial meat market
An inventive debut about the conflicting impulses of smart millennial women
Women & Power: A Manifesto review – a small but wonderfully potent call to action
Mary Beard looks for the roots of women’s exclusion from decisionmaking
The Dawn Watch review: a reminder of Joseph Conrad’s artistic greatness
Maya Jasanoff views Conrad’s troubled life through the lenses of his four greatest novels
The story of a Donegal village, the history of modern Ireland
Breandán Mac Suibhne offers an extraordinary, provocative view of rural Ireland
Deeds and Their Days review: Found in translation
Peter Fallon was wary of taking on the Greek poet Hesiod. He shouldn’t have been
WTF review: Robert Peston’s take on Brexit and Trump? FFS
The ITV political editor’s enlightened Keynesianism comes wrapped in Alan Partridgism
Declan Kiberd’s very lively postmortem on Republic
After Ireland review:Fintan O’Toole on a witty, engaging but sometimes baffling take on literature since 1945
Lincoln in the Bardo review: George Saunders’ Man Booker Prize winner
George Saunders’s first novel focuses on the death of Abraham Lincoln’s son Willie. Despite its highly original conceit it’s his most straightforward fiction
Crossing the Line review: A vivid account of reporting the Troubles
Susan McKay on Martin Dillon’s memoir of his life and journalism
Unfinished Business review: The financial crash and its terrible cost, 10 years on
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe on an IMF insider’s analysis of all that went wrong
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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