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The Bee Sting (2023), by Paul Murray: A Review
Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting is one of those novels that you must sit with for a while. When I finished reading it, I wasn’t even absolutely sure…
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Intermezzo (2024), by Sally Rooney: A Review
Hailed as the literary event of the year, the publication of Intermezzo was preceded by a massive marketing campaign. It included the standard sending of advanced reader copies…
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Wild Houses, by Colin Barrett review: Irish masculinities and the politics of non-violence
This review contains spoilers of Wild Houses. To my mind, thirteen always seemed like a magic number of chapters for a novel or novella. I suppose that comes from…
