Anna Carey selects her top recommendations for your summer reading pleasure. She also reviews The Long Hot Summer by Kathleen MacMahon.
Sarah Gilmartin's New Fiction column considers Boo by Neil Smith.
Eileen Battersby reviews None so Blind by JA González Sainz, translated by Harold Augenbraum and Cecilia Ross.
Our three short reviews are of Jebel Marra by Michelle Green; Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton; and Brain Storms by CBC Monkstown Transition-Year Students.
In non-fiction, Donal McCartney, emeritus professor of modern Irish history at UCD, reviews James Quinn's Young Ireland and the Writing of Irish History.
Róisín Ní Ghairbhí, a lecturer in Irish at St Patrick's College, Dublin City University, reviews An Irish-speaking Island by Nicholas M Wolf.
Lawrence Douglas, author of The Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust, reviews Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide by Thomas de Waal.
In thr shadow of Bloomsday, Sara Keating looks at the latest James Joyce apps and ebooks.
Last but not least, Isabelle Cartwright's Word for Word column finds the poetry in crosswords.
