Shadow Ticket: Maybe Thomas Pynchon isn’t actually all that great
Pynchon has a remarkable grasp of the American vernacular and no ear for prose rhythm whatsoever
By Kevin Power
New poetry: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; Enda Wyley; Gregory Leadbetter; and Rosamund Taylor
Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley: You won’t like to be beside this seaside
Paschal Donohoe reviews The World’s Worst Bet: How The Globalisation Gamble Went Wrong
I’m always surprised at the whiff of condescension that greets historical novels
New crime fiction, including works by Marie Cassidy, Paul Bradley Carr and Chris Hadfield
Myths and Lies of the Irish Revolution by Colum Kenny: A brave and intriguing book
When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker: Padded out and repetitive
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POETRY
Bernie McGill: ‘I got through an English degree at Queen’s without encountering a single Irish female writer’
By Martin Doyle
The best new sci-fi/fantasy books: From impending AI apocalypse to rogue bots on Mars
By Declan Burke
Micheál Martin on David McCullagh’s new book: An excellent read exploring ultimate fate of Anglo-Irish Treaty
By Micheál Martin
Mitch Albom: ‘People think that if you’ve written inspirational books in the past, everything is great in your life’
By Shane Stokes
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