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Book review: The End of Reality urges us to push back against technocrats who run the world

‘Scathing but humane’ book by Jonathan Taplin centres on four infantile tech-bro billionaires who hold far too much power over us all
  • Rory Kiberd
  • September 23, 2023
Books

Book review: Thomas Morris opens up new angles on modern manhood

While rumours of the Welsh writer’s genius may be exaggerated, this clutch of five short stories is original and fresh
  • Elizabeth O'Neill
  • September 23, 2023

Simply Better
Back to School

Delicious recipes by Neven Maguire

Books

Book review: Past and present intertwine in wild and magnificent Irish epic

In Thirsty Ghosts, Emer Martin revisits the O’Conaill family of her previous novel, whose members are now adults struggling to survive in 1970s Ireland
  • John Walshe
  • September 23, 2023
Books

Book review: Zadie Smith’s mistaken identity novel casts an eye over Victorian England and its many frauds

The Fraud is ostensibly about a butcher who claims to be the long-lost son of an heiress, but also examines many other half-truths of the period
  • Pat Carty
  • September 23, 2023
Culture

Sara Keating: Artists give us a serious laugh as the world burns

Two novelists and a theatre company use tragicomedy to great effect when addressing the issue of climate crisis
  • Sara Keating
  • September 23, 2023
Books

Book review: Tony Holohan memoir holds few revelations and little if any contrition

Erstwhile chief medical officer famous for his role during the Covid pandemic has written a worthy and humane book, but certainly not a particularly gripping one
  • Andrew Lynch
  • September 21, 2023
Books

Dubray buys Dublin-based Gutter Bookshops

Stores in Dalkey and Temple Bar will retain Gutter brand following the purchase
  • Emmet Ryan
  • September 19, 2023
Books

Book review: Philosophy for a Better World in the social media age

Academic Arianne Shahvisi drops the well-worn canon to reveal how reason is beset by unexamined assumptions, leading to cancel culture, bigotry and oppression
  • Elizabeth O'Neill
  • September 14, 2023
Books

Book review: Dutch author’s exploration of anxiety is fascinating and relatable

In The Anxiety Project, Dutch journalist and novelist Daan Heerma van Voss, who himself suffers from crippling fear, takes a literary look at the condition
  • John Walshe
  • September 14, 2023
Interview

Booker-longlisted novelist Elaine Feeney on childhood, the music of language and the power of place

Unlike many creative people, the Athenry author of How to Build a Boat has never felt the urge to escape from her past
  • Tony Clayton-Lea
  • September 14, 2023
Books

Book review: Anne Enright’s light touch makes pure poetry of The Wren, The Wren

Latest novel exploring family relationships may be even better than her Booker Prize-winning The Gathering
  • Pat Carty
  • September 14, 2023
Books

Book review: Chronicle of Germany’s post-WWI descent from democracy has a lesson for us all

Historian Frank McDonough’s thorough account of the Weimar period deftly builds a menacing sense of momentum, with Hitler hovering over all
  • Andrew Lynch
  • September 14, 2023
Culture

Sara Keating: A welcome opportunity for Irish children’s writers to make their voices heard

Discover Irish Kids’ Books, a campaign led by children’s author Sarah Webb, aims to persuade booksellers to promote ‘home-grown’ children’s books over those of non-Irish authors
  • Sara Keating
  • September 14, 2023
Books

Book review: It’s an emotional ‘bye, bye-bye-bye, bye’ to our national treasure

Our beloved Aisling has her head and heart pulled in opposite directions in the last book of Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen’s series
  • Andrea Cleary
  • September 14, 2023
Books

Book review: Dystopian tale of future Ireland earns its place on Booker longlist

Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song can be hard work stylistically, but the hugely climactic payoff is worth it
  • John Burns
  • September 8, 2023
Books

Book review: Neil Jordan’s latest sprinkles elements of fairytale with a film maker’s eye for detail

Familiar themes of identity emerge as Ireland’s most successful director returns to his first career as a fiction writer
  • Brendan Daly
  • September 7, 2023
Books

Book review: John Connolly spirits us back into dark fairy tale world

Captivating follow up to The Book of Lost Things revisits themes of time, mortality and the power of storytelling via the shady path of society’s subconscious
  • Pat Carty
  • September 6, 2023
Books

Book review: Honest, poetic memoir uses sea as canvas for memory, grief and survival

In a powerful debut, Miriam Mulcahy describes her emotional journey following the death of her parents and sister, who also loved sea swimming
  • Andrea Cleary
  • September 6, 2023
Books

Book review: Explosive Sinn Féin exposé pulls several skeletons out of closet

In The Long Game, journalist Aoife Moore portrays the party as a secretive, autocratic, almost cult-like organisation
  • Andrew Lynch
  • September 6, 2023
Books

Book review: Baltimore Gangster Montana Barronette was a ‘normal teenager in an abnormal environment’

The descent of Sandtown, Baltimore’s ‘number one trigger-puller’ is bluntly examined in journalist Mark Bowden’s deep dive into gang warfare
  • Bert Wright
  • August 31, 2023

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