‘Heaps of tresses’: What do poets really mean about Irish hair?
Debate about Irish people’s hair has endured for centuries
By Lucy McDiarmid
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy: observations, reflections and a missing cat
Crime fiction: Anne Cadwallader blends politics, violence, law and media in gripping debut
‘Your husband is having an affair with my wife’: how the perfect life of an heiress exploded
‘Now we see what’s happening’: Leïla Slimani sets fire to the Nineties in final act of trilogy
Home Economics by Caitríona Lally made me reconsider my views on cleaning, work and what we value
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Whatever Happened to Madeline Stone by Louise O’Neill: A gleefully tawdry Tinseltown novel
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POETRY
Sweep the Cobwebs off the Sky by Mary O’Donnell: Another vital work from a quiet radical
By Adam Wyeth
Boyhood by David Keenan: One of those special books that enter the world still unfolding
By Nicholas Allen
Claire Coughlan: ‘Creating something and showing it to the world can feel inordinately scary’
By Martin Doyle
The Irish Proust: A fascinating search for a creature that may not be mythical after all
By Frank Wynne
Into the Wreck by Susannah Dickey: Unexpected page-turner centred around a family funeral
By Edel Coffey
Few and Far Between by Jan Carson: compelling fiction is a bravura act of imagination
By Nicholas Allen
After the Shy Girl controversy, where does publishing’s AI problem leave authors and readers?
By Alexandra Alter
Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester: a revenge story of Millennials versus Boomers
By Kevin Power
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