Children’s books: from an innovative warts’n’all American history to art without men
Reviews: America as it Happened; Pets Tell Tales of Ancient Rome; A History of Art without Men; Ireland; and Home Away from Home
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Elizabeth Strout: ‘It’s a deeply sad time in the US’
New poetry: Leontia Flynn; Martina Dalton; Blake Morrison; and Joe Carrick-Varty
Decoding a genius – Kafkaesque: Ten Great Writers Translate the Twentieth Century
Jokes, but no jokey cover for reissue of Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report
Ruth McKee: ‘Pitching a novel about a suicidal middle-aged woman getting drunk on her birthday wasn’t easy’
Poem of the Week: Men Flying Kites on the Back Beach, Laytown
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POETRY
The Bleeding Horse and Other Ghost Stories by Brian J Showers: Meet Dublin’s restless dead
By Henrietta McKervey
Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh: Her best work yet asks how much love’s actually worth
By Emily Goulding
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy: An exaltingly intelligent novel that defies expectation
By Mei Chin
The Secrets of Painting by Lachlan Goudie: An infectious enthusiasm that sometimes borders on cringe
By Aengus Woods
The first film I saw at a cinema was Christopher Reeve’s Superman. It upended my childlike mind
By Ed Power
Where the Music Had to Go: Bob Dylan, The Beatles and the making of modern pop mythology
By Peter Murphy
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