Crime fiction: The thriller people said couldn’t be done; and one of Robert Harris’s finest
Precipice by Robert Harris; The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre; The Perfect Place by Amanda Cassidy; Sovereign Territory by Andy Bell; and Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
By Declan Burke
Michael Russell: ‘The Yorkshire Ripper murders made me uneasy with TV violence, especially towards women’
Zainab Boladale: Giving voice to black, gay people in Ireland
Multicultural Britain. A People’s History by Kieran Connell: Stunning insights but plenty overlooked
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey: Looking for truth in all the wrong places
Heroines and The Light Room by Kate Zambreno: An evolution from selfie mode to third-person universality
Exhibit by RO Kwon: The shame of longing
Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny by John Sweeney – A grimly fascinating read
Nineteen Eighty-Four turns 75: the older George Orwell’s dystopian novel grows, the more urgent it feels
By Kate Demolder
My first encounter with Edna O’ Brien has never left me, but the last was the most difficult
By Sinéad O'Shea
‘The best place to see Edna O’Brien was at Mass’: the banned and burned author’s complex relationship with Ireland
By Andrew Hamilton
Author Charlotte Mendelson: ‘There’s nothing more fascinating than other people’s marriages, particularly when they start to go wrong.’
By Martin Doyle
Paschal Donohoe on The Centre Must Hold, edited by Yair Zivan, and Left Behind by Paul Collier
By Paschal Donohoe