Reviews in brief - Books: A Manifesto or How to Build a Library; Artists and Pirates; Nymph
Ian Patterson makes a compelling case for physical books, Stephanie LaCava is entertaining as always and new offering explores golden age of visual satire
Best Westerns: Larry McMurtry and the true heroes of the old American West
Staging Beckett in London by Matthew McFrederick: New study traces 70 years of productions
Poem of the Week: Grianstad, East Coast Solstice
Motherland by Julia Ioffe: The unfairly forgotten women of the Soviet Union
‘The feeling came back, the one I had been successfully avoiding for so long: shame’
New Selected Poems: 1978-2022 by Medbh McGuckian - Copious sunsetty pleasures
Could Napoleon have changed Irish history? James Quinn examines the 1798 Rebellion
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This Is Not a Cookbook by Roxana Manouchehri: An elegant book from our Persian-Irish host
By Brigid O'Dea
Poem of the Week: Evie Hone’s Nativity Window (Manresa Jesuit Retreat House, Clontarf)
By Daniel Reardon
I’m Glad You Asked Me That: The Political Years by Terry Prone - Caustic and entertaining
By Andrew Lynch
Children’s books for Christmas: from a crime-fighting fox to the best encyclopaedias
By Sara Keating
Nicola Pierce: ‘I started to write Great Irish Wives without any idea I would be a widow by the time it went to print’
By Martin Doyle
How Canada coped with an influx of destitute and diseased Irish people during the Famine
By Breandán Mac Suibhne
The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie: A new collection rich with pathos and reflection
By Kieran Connell
