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At Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art, the work of renowned artist Guadalupe Maravilla is on display in the same space as that of Ingrid Hernandez-Franco, a Salvadoran woman whose asylum case was championed by a Cornell professor and her students.

At Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art, the work of renowned artist Guadalupe Maravilla is on display in the same space as that of Ingrid Hernandez-Franco, a Salvadoran woman whose asylum case was championed by a Cornell professor and her students.

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The Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize has just released the international longlist, which includes Belfast novelist Michael Magee’s Close to Home.

Popularity is not a guarantee of quality. Last year’s fiction ­offered ample proof of that: as Claire Allfree wrote here in Nov­em­ber 2022, the big...

From Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting to Zadie Smith’s The Fraud, and a companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four – this year’s fiction highlights

The Coiled Serpent is not a collection that offers answers to the mysteries it sets out, choosing to dwell in the absurd and uncertain.

There’s a glorious excess to these weirdly baroque tales, which set their sights on exploitation and English exceptionalism

Never mind the A-list – this year’s best books came from unsung names, indie presses and odd archival depths. Read on for the highlights…

Student Hub email digest: Natural Restoration Law; homelessness; NATO agus Ecat; Ireland’s response to Gaza bombardment; how Irish politics have been impacted by Middle East crisis; Jozef Puska; Stradivarius and Camilla Grudova’s The Coiled Serpent reviewed.