Sixteen books that helped put 2025 in perspective
What our literary output offers is not a vision of perfectibility but an attempt to reckon with our world in all its contradiction, ambiguity, and fractiousness.
Conor Mc Donnell channels T.S. Eliot in his latest book of poetry
The title of Mc Donnell's book alludes to a newsroom cliché deployed in the early stages of an ongoing crisis or upheaval.