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Suburband Dublin devastated by airstrikes, a government descending into tyranny, civil liberties eroded and a family facing the question whether to stay or flee is the scenario posed in the International Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Prophet Song.

Andrew Motion Something old made new: The Iliad in Emily Wilson’s muscular and moving new translation, the first by a woman, is truly what it claims to be – a version for our time (Norton, £30). And something new made immediate: Hannah Sullivan’s second collection of poems, Was It For This (Faber, £12.99), ambitiously extends

The demon Doma murdered Shinobu Kocho, the bug Hashira. Shinobu's death is one of the most heartbreaking tragedies in Demon Slayer.

Saul Bellow gets a stamp, and speculating on the odds of enduring literary legacies.

Irish authors whose works are in a data set used to train AI share their views

‘If I Survive You,’ by Jonathan Escoffery Escoffery’s debut is also the only collection of short fiction that made the shortlist — linked stories about a Jamaican-American family living in Miami. He said in an interview with Bomb Magazine last year that “one thing the book does is trouble the idea of a unified identity that remains…

I've put together a list of books that you won't be able to put down. These reads are bound to end your reading slump, trust me.

A group of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) were honored with unit commendations at an awards ceremony on Saturday for saving a man during a bee attack.

From the staunchly classic to neo-Neapolitan style, these restaurants serve the best pizza in Singapore. As one of Italy’s most famous exports, pizza has been passionately adopted by the rest of the world. It is sold everywhere from corner stores to Michelin-starred restaurants. International corporations have turned it into billion-dollar businesses. It has even been recognised by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage. Pizza is also a source of a lot of emotional wrangling. Purists l...

The best novels of 2023 featuring new books from authors including Rose Tremain, Adam Biles, Stephen King, Paul Lynch, and Zadie Smith.