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Credit: Illustration by EW With the generation’s blisteringly open tales of sex, drugs, and devastating credit-card debt, the struggle has, quite literally, never been more real — or readable. Below, the three novels that inhabited the millennial ethos the most this year. Luster by Raven Leilani The must-’gram galley of the spring became the must-read title of the summer among millennials, thanks to an eye-catching cover, a compulsively readable plot—about a struggling book-publishing assistant — and the n...

I first heard of Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg on Twitter, where a mutual follower posted a photo of the book captioned “can’t believe I’m old enough that my teen sad girl tumblr mutuals are publishing novels now”. Goldberg is a New York-based writer, who has already published a novella and a poetry collection.  Nothing Can Hurt You is her first novel, and forms part of a recent spate of female writers, including Naoise Dolan, Elif Bautman and Sally Rooney, whose formative experiences of writing were online. The sense of simultaneous connection and loneliness this cre...

Sinéad Crowley's books of the year Updated / Friday, 11 Dec 2020 11:15 Author and RTÉ News Arts and Media Correspondent Sinéad Crowley rounds up her books of 2020 Well that was quite the year. I know many people vowed to read more books during the dark days of 2020, and I also know many of them ended up playing with their phones instead and that’s perfectly fine, because just getting through 2020 was an achievement in itself, without any need to feel bad about unrealised goals. But for those of us who do enjoy reading, books were a lifesaver this year, transporting us to other places a...