With Bloomsday just around the corner, we publish an abridged version of Declan Kiberd's essay, Ulysses and Us, which appears in Voices on Joyce, co-edited by Anne Fogarty and Fran O'Rourke, published by UCD Press. Terence Brown reviews the book itself.
Diarmaid Ferriter reviews Maurice Walsh's Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918-23
As Father's Day approaches, Carl O'Brien reviews sons+fathers, edited by Kathy Gilfillan, a book in which famous men discuss their relationship with their father, to raise funds for the Irish Hospice Foundation.
Molly McCloskey reviews The Tsarnaev Brothers: The Road to a Modern Tragedy by Masha Gessen.
On the fiction front, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne reviews Not the Same Sky by Evelyn Conlon, about Irish orphans shipped out to Australia.
Peter Murphy reviews Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer, "a fine example of what happens when big, brainy ideas are successfully mated with good old-fashioned plot thrust".
June by Gerbrand Bakker, translated by David Colmer, gets Eileen Battersby's approval.
Sinéad Gleeson pays tribute to Patricia Highsmith 20 years after her death, as six of her novels are reissued, inckluding The Talented Mr Ripley, first published 60 years ago.
Our three short reviews this Saturday are Scenes from the Enlightenment by Kim Namcheon; Ahoy For Joy by Keith Reilly; and The Faint-hearted Bolshevik by Lorenzo Silva.
Our poetry reviewer John McAuliffe considers Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Research Council, Antonella Anedda's Archipelago and Mark Doty's Deep Lane.
