Re-reading my teenage diaries: joy and pain radiates off the pages
I stopped writing letters and diaries completely when I got an email address in 1997, but they have made a welcome return to my life in recent years
By Anna Carey
Percentages by Nuala O’Connor
Best Friends by Andrew Meehan: Engaging, witty and charming septuagenarian love story
Walking Ghosts by Mary O’Donnell: An ambitious, dystopian and horny collection
Good books: The 20 best holiday reads this summer
Sarah Maria Griffin: ‘I will be trying to figure out what the internet means to me for the rest of my life’
The Sleep Room by Jon Stock: Could an Irish version of this frightening scandal in British psychiatry yet emerge?
Death In Derry - Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against The British: Strong on candour, weak on analysis
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This Interim Time by Oona Frawley: Moving essays by the daughter of Irish actors in New York
By Jessica Traynor
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid: An imperfect addition to the lesbians-in-space genre
By Naoise Dolan
Almost 400 Irish writers sign statement calling for immediate ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict
Writers remember Edmund White: The chronicler, artist and patron saint of queer literature
By Alan Hollinghurst, Colm Tóibín, Adam Mars-Jones, Olivia Laing, Mendez, Tom Crewe, and Seán Hewitt
Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way by Elaine Feeney: An ambitious, thoughtful, nicely layered book
By Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Unbecoming Catholic. Being Religious in Contemporary Ireland: A sweet kind of freedom
By Gladys Ganiel
Sam Tallent’s Running the Light: Tale of a god-gifted comedian masquerading as joker and joke
By Peter Murphy
Seamus Heaney’s North at 50: Poetic landmark ‘came most intensely out of the first shock of the Troubles’
By Stephen O’Neill
