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Cork County Council’s Library and Arts Service is accepting submissions to the From the Well Short Story Competition 2025.

I’ve been having flashes of memories from way back in the day lately. I don’t know why. Memory and nostalgia are partners in ...

Thankfully, two recent anthologies of Indian fiction — both suggested to me by avid readers at the Book Fair — sparkled and may redress an imbalance noted by a literary friend recently: Jaipur, and ...

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Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.