Setting the Land Free: Visions of a Rewilded Ireland – an urgent manifesto for living with nature
In his follow-up to An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, Eoghan Daltun shows how policy shifts in land managment could work in practice across Ireland
By Neil Hegarty
A stunning novel by T Geronimo Johnson is among this month’s best new crime fiction
Elizabeth Wassell Montague: ‘My new novel was partly inspired by the mystery of eating disorders’
Poems of the week: Queritate, and A Boat
Reviews in brief: Fledgling and Exhibition
Changing Gender by Susan Stryker: A work of extraordinary energy, hope and emotional force
Sebastian Barry: ‘My mother was interesting, extravagant. It was difficult to be a child of such a person’
Death Do Us by Ruthy Mason: An engaging if uneven story
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For the Dead Remember: The Life of MR James by Darryl Jones – Horror upon horror, from public school to the page
By John Connolly
Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason: A beguiling novel that is so much more than the sum of its parts
By Helen Cullen
Choosing the Struggle by Martina Anderson: A fascinating, shocking and frank narrative on her work as a politician
By Stephen Walker
Life of M by Rachel Cusk: A mesmeric and vampiric relationship with not-Natalie Portman
By Anthony Cummins
Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis: Book underscores unresolved difficulty of placement in the literary canon
By Peter Lonsdale
Betrayal by Luke Harding: A colourful, entertaining take on Trump, Russia and Ukraine
By Seamus Martin
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