Crime fiction: New works by Nick Harkaway, Louise Penny, Scott Phillips, David Safier and Jane Casey
Stunning literary ventriloquism will see George Smiley defer his retirement for some time to come, while Scott Phillips delivers a dark-stained noir punctuated by arson and murder by claw-hammer
By Declan Burke
Irish Cities in Crisis: A ‘call to arms’ on the challenges of housing a rapidly growing population
‘It doesn’t have to be them or us’: Teachers behind new book of refugees’ stories want to challenge stereotypes
Thirst by Giles Foden: What happens when there’s not enough water to go around?
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Author Georgi Gospodinov: ‘The past is not a good place to live in. And the dealers of the past roam among us’
Poets’ prose: Thinking about questions posed by poems, from Seamus Heaney to Eavan Boland
Poem of the Week: Audience at the Botanic
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Ulster 1912-1922: How the Treaty negotiators lost control of the Irish Border amid high pressure and British duplicity
By Neil Hegarty
Fantasy writer Alan Moore: ‘Magic is not this big, spooky, dark thing that’s full of nightmares’
By Séamas O'Reilly
John Banville at the Prado in Madrid: ‘I’d say the Caravaggio in Ireland is a lot better’
By Nicholas Casey
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: A Life in Music: Stellar capture of irrepressible force of nature
By Siobhán Long
Author Martin Waddell: ‘When I got blown up, I was no longer fit to write. I lost several years’
By Martin Doyle
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Development and diversity – Deserving of a wide readership
By Anthony Roche
