In The Irish Times this Saturday, Marian Keyes, Paul Howard and John Boyne tell Róisín Ingle what they think of AI imitation’s of their writing. Declan Burke lists some of the great portrayal of artificial intelligence, from The Terminator to Frankenstein. Arthur Mathews writes about his history of the life and death of Kevin O’Higgins: Walled in by Hate: The Friends and Enemies of Kevin O’Higgins.
And there is a Q&A with Aimée Walsh, Belfast-born author of the highly rated debut novel Exile. Reviews are Christopher Kissane on Spice: The 16th Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World by Roger Crowley; Seamus Martin on The Language of War by Oleksandr Mykhed; Edel Coffey on All Fours by Miranda July; Declan Burke on the best new crime fiction; Declan Hughes on The Playbook by James Shapiro; Niamh Jiménez on All the Lonely People by Sam Carr; Cauvery Madhavan on Thank You Mr Crombie: Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British by Mihir Bose; Sean Sheehan on The Avant-Gardists by Sjeng Scheijen; Gemma Tipton on All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield; Eilís Ni Dhuibhne on Bright I Burn by Molly Aitken; Ruby Eastwood on Private Rites by Julia Armfield; and Sarah Gilmartin on Godwin by Joseph O’Neill. A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell is this weekend’s Irish Times Eason offer, just €5.
99 with your newspaper, a €5 saving. Eason offer Liz Nugent has been shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024 for her latest novel, S.
