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Hated by all the Right People by Jason Zengerle: Will Tucker Carlson become next Maga leader?
This biography of the right-wing media celebrity is timely, informative and highly readable
By Daniel Geary
Outsider by Paul Cullen: Moving memoir holds a torch up to cruel attitudes of the past
A day in the life of the mobile library serving the people of the Beara Peninsula in Cork
In Glass Houses by Edel Coffey: Another pitting of the haves against the have-nots
Poem of the week: On the Lead Mines
Orange by Curtis Garner: A novel that might have made a good short story
Unspeakable by Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne: Human triumph after trauma
Charleen Hurtubise: ‘People fall into relationship patterns that feel familiar rather than good’
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New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham: A book of quiet beauty that circles Irishness without trying to possess it
By Adam Wyeth
Colm Tóibín and Tana French among big names at International Literature Festival Dublin
By Martin Doyle
The Next World War by Peter Apps: Cautious optimism - for those who can defend themselves
By Tom Clonan
Nation of Strangers by Ece Temelkuran: ‘These times are orphaning all that is humane’
By John Walshe
The Triangle of Power by Alexander Stubb: Finnish president’s view of a fractured world
By Michael Sanfey
Paschal Donohoe on Capitalism, A Global History by Sven Beckert: Demanding but magisterial
By Paschal Donohoe
The Power of Guilt by Chris Moore: A formidable read that will challenge, unsettle and provoke
By Paul D'Alton
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine: A deeply human novel of reckoning and love
By Sally Hayden
Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray: Compelling take on queer adolescence and platonic parenthood
By Edel Coffey
Scifi/fantasy: Dave Rudden’s Sister Wake a politically charged epic that draws on Irish history
By Declan Burke
