Gaming, fandom, and therapy-speak: April’s YA titles explore contemporary adolescent culture
Reviews: What Happens Online; Do You Ship It?; Red Flags; Solo; The Girl with the Red Boots; Matched Up
Burn Them Out! A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
Author Catherine Ryan Howard: ‘A great cure for writer’s block is having to cover the rent’
Eden’s Shore by Oisín Fagan: Labyrinthine novel brimming with life
Wild Grace: The Untamed Women of Modern Dance – An uneven celebration of radical feminist power
One Man in His Time by NM Borodin: Powerful memoir of horror after Russia’s October 1917 revolution
Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian by Michael Braddick – A sometimes dry but sensitive account of Hill’s political developments
Poem of the Week: Landscape with Factory
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The Big Fight by Dave Hannigan: Account of Muhammad Ali in Croke Park a strange time capsule of 1970s Ireland
By NJ McGarrigle
Naoise Dolan’s verdict on One Boat by Jonathan Buckley: An experiment that doesn’t entirely hold water
By Naoise Dolan
John Boyne on Fair Play by Louise Hegarty: A witty debut that celebrates the golden age of crime novels
By John Boyne
Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’
By Bernadette Fallon
The Forest is the Path by Gary Lightbody: Moving, lyrical and more than just a companion book to Snow Patrol’s album
By Adam Wyeth
