Killing and destruction in Gaza: new book examines Israel’s campaign and the enablers
Fintan Drury’s Genocide: Sponsoring the Destruction of Palestine
By John Walshe
The People’s Emperor by Edward Shawcross: Entertaining and thoroughly researched biography
Reading has become a hobby for which you need equipment, like scuba diving
Translated literature: From a harsh and hilarious epic set in Apachería to a portrait of Toronto
Shari Lapena: ‘I’ve always read and loved thrillers, but I didn’t think I could write one’
The Common Good Economy: An elegant examination of the direction we want states to sail in
Long Wave by Daisy Johnson: Exploring the dark side of motherhood
Jan-Werner Müller on how a place’s buildings affect how democracy is practised there
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A Bitter Harvest: A Derry man’s family search for his ‘British state-sponsored’ killer
By NJ McGarrigle
It Will Come Back to You by Sigrid Nunez: Unforgettable short stories from the author of The Friend
By Colm McKenna
Trouble Was by Charlotte Edwardes: Toughness of toxic families told with great tenderness
By Helen Cullen
A brilliant book of fiction keeps breathing somewhere in the mind long after you close it
By Patrick Holloway
Regime Change: The chaos of Donald Trump exposed in blow-by-blow accounts of highly sensitive meetings
By Daniel Mulhall
Crime fiction: Hitchcockian flair in modern Ireland, and a note-perfect Mexican noir
By Brian Cliff and Elizabeth Mannion
Slightly Magical Irish Poetry and the Long 1990s: Thorn trees, wells and ‘railroad revelries’
By Adrian Frazier
The Cornucopia Story: Dublin’s wholefood institution is about much more than legumes
By Harry Higgins
The Red Mouth by Sheila Armstrong: A dazzling second novel as layered as the bog itself
By Neil Hegarty
