Roisín O’Donnell: ‘I became hyper-aware of the manipulative language used by abusive partners. I wanted to cut through that’
The author on Nesting, her novel about coercive control; her complicated identity; and misogyny on social media
By Martin Doyle
Three key takes on China: On Xi Jinping; The Political Thought of Xi Jinping; and The New Cold War
Novelist Catherine Airey: ‘Growing up in a Catholic family, there is always a lot of stuff that’s not talked about’
Patria: Lost Countries of South America by Laurence Blair – Unearthing South America’s forgotten nations
Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan: Insight, laughs and a heavy understanding of how difficult life is for young millennials and Gen Zs
My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria by Andrée Blouin – An intense history of colonialism
Otherworld by Lisa M Bitel: A joyous selection of Ireland’s oldest, lesser known folk tales
Didier Fassin’s Moral Abdication: How the West Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza
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The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
By Catherine Toal
Season by George Harrison & Greatest of All Time by Alex Allison: A brace of novels that hit the back of the net
By John Boyne
Michael D Higgins leads tributes to Michael Longley: ‘One of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced’
By Martin Doyle
The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick: A love letter to New York and the solo life
By Edel Coffey
Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell: A confident and compelling debut novel about coercive control
By Kevin Power
Fragments of Victory: the Contemporary Irish Left, edited by Oisín Gilmore and David Landy
By Brian Hanley
‘The phone would ring and it would be Mike Scott from the Waterboys or Bono from U2. Everyone wanted to talk to my father’
By Toner Quinn
