For almost a century, an Irish government building in the heart of Dublin has hosted a secret sanctum: the banned books room. The department of justice, on St Stephen’s Green, did not... Read more »
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One of the themes of Biden’s memoir is that he was a fantastic President. To hear him tell it, as his term was coming to an end, things were going great all... Read more »
Paul Theroux’s arrival in Canada doesn’t go well. An immigration officer called Sweeney finds a small pocketknife in his car and fines him $500 for failing to declare a weapon. “I’m going... Read more »
Unseen writing by Harry Houdini, the world’s most renowned escapologist and illusionist, is being published in the US on Saturday, the 100th anniversary of his death. As well as being famous for... Read more »
Photograph: Alejandro García/EPA Who knows where a novel really comes from? I spend years gathering loose threads and then, when I feel like the cloth will hold, I start to weave them... Read more »
The disgraced bestselling author Craig Silvey has claimed he experienced trauma as a child in a 9,000-word apology published after he was jailed for child exploitation offences. The young adult novelist was... Read more »
As a kid, Chris Ware loved collecting and preserving comics. He graduated from buying Batman and Superman at the nearby 7-Eleven to honing his taste at the local comic shop, where he... Read more »
The Universe Is an Animal by Jessica Mookherjee (Nine Arches, £11.99) In this confident and capacious collection, scientific language commingles with familial histories of displacement and war. Echoes of violence, from the... Read more »