Anne Applebaum: ‘Trump is a transactional person whose interest is in himself... It’s why he is more dangerous’
The Pulitzer prize-winning author on the growing dangers of Trump, the difference between Putin and Xi Jinping, and why Russia is not done with Ukraine
By Mark Paul
Michael Longley: ‘Most men don’t like intelligent women. I just hang on their every word’
‘Every great man has a woman behind him rolling her eyes’
Identity by John Sweetman: a good cop comes clean
Poem of the Week: Mariners by Michael Longley
Look at the USA: A Diary of War and Home: Truth of photos fuels human sorrow
The Last Sane Woman: Friendship, feminism and the art world
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors: Crackling sibling chemistry
Night of Power by Robert Fisk: A masterly work by a unique and gifted ‘historian of the present’
By Conor O’Clery
Cross by Austin Duffy: A high-wire act pulled off with almost complete success
By James Conor Patterson
West Cork History Festival 2024: The festival has established a reputation for the quality of its programme
By Simon Kingston
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner: Following up Fleishman Is in Trouble was never going to be easy
By Edel Coffey
Best crime fiction: Witness 8 is a welcome addition to Steve Cavanagh’s Eddie Flynn series
By Brian Cliff & Elizabeth Mannion
Gaza: you want it darker? Why are leading lights of Western culture ignoring the plight of Palestine
By Joe Cleary
Karin Slaughter: ‘I want to show how one act of violence can have a ripple effect that changes the lives of everyone’
By Martin Doyle