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Standing behind time’s wishes

review by Noel Rooney

Two very necessary, and necessarily depressing, books on the Rwanda genocide.

Stasiland

review by Kevin Higgins

Funder’s acute awareness of the absurdity that often accompanies the worst tyrannies saves the book from worthiness.

Stevenson under the palm trees

review by Seamus Sweeney

A beguiling tale of the dying author in Samoa.

Striding to empire, strides for the emperor

review by Noel Rooney

Reading books about America...

A study in survival

review by Tom Ruffles

Communicating with the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Or not, as the case may be...

Such men are dangerous

review by Andy Worthington

Not totally convincing, but scary nonetheless...

Sunset Park

review by Robert Philbin

Landscape for survivors...

The sympathetic medium

review by Tom Ruffles

Transcribing, sending, receiving and recording information between the living was essentially the same as doing so between living and dead in the 19th century

Technologies of magic

review by Tom Ruffles

The notion of 'magic' is a slippery one and can encourage waffle when it is not pinned down sufficiently...

Tetched & Lick of the lizard

review by Kevin Higgins

Excellent Irish and American story collections.