Wolf Moon by Arifa Akbar: On the night shift
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Vona Groarke: ‘The best thing that could happen for Irish poetry is for people to buy poetry books’
The new Ireland Professor of Poetry is looking forward to bringing some fresh ideas to the role but is ‘not in the business of ramming poetry down anybody’s throats’
By Edel Coffey
Paschal Donohoe on books that advise how to run our economies and save the planet
Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick: ‘With picture books, I’m ruthless, and that has carried over into my novel’
Migraine by Samuel Fisher: A world of pain
News of the World and An Aran Keening by Andrew McNeillie: Joy and meaning in living and dreaming
Lucy Steeds’ The Artist wins Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt: A novel with impressive scope
Translated fiction: convincing first-person narration, personal stories through political turmoil, and sharp but subtle humour
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Sci-fi/fantasy reads: AI as our saviour, a genetically engineered space crew, and navigating a world designed for giants
By Declan Burke
New Laureate for fiction Éilís Ní Dhuibhne: ‘I was part of a movement of women writers of Ireland’
By Martin Doyle
The Crying of the Wind: Ireland by Ithell Colquhoun – An exquisitely strange British-Celtic artist’s travels in Ireland
By Adrienne Murphy
Notes to John by Joan Didion: The posthumous publication of the writer’s psychiatry sessions feels exploitative
By Maija Makela
A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine - a lucid, at times hectoring, short read
By Oliver Farry
Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong by Stephen Unwin – Too much piousness, not enough pragmatism
By Lucy Sweeney Byrne
