Sidelined narrators: Booker winning novels by Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes: letter.talkaboutbooks.net
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\n![\"FT](\"https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/5102/2026/londonophobia.png\")
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Depressing thought. Janan Ganesh in the FT on “The weird resilience of the EU”
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/artkavanagh/88364023","date_published":"2026-04-16T10:16:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-16 10:16","date_timestamp":1776334594,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"88295968","content_html":"This arrived in the post this morning. I had to pay An Post an extra €15 to get it delivered in Ireland because the publisher doesn’t yet have a distributor in the EU. I’d rather that money had gone to the editor and/or publisher but hey, at least I got the book 📖
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/2026/04/12/mike-westbrook-has-died-aged.html","date_published":"2026-04-12T16:00:13+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-12 16:00","date_timestamp":1776009613,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rliaknrkcvekkizv7rjkk6mb/post/3mjcpvscpae2z"]}},{"id":"88046442","content_html":"\n\nRather than building housing, local councils are outbidding first-time buyers for new and second-hand homes, using the State’s financial power to outbid local people.
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David McWilliams, Irish Times. This is absurd and reckless. We should be building before the corproation tax bonanza disappears.
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\n
Sam Leith on how that NYT AI/plagiarism kerfuffle came about
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\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/2026/03/29/ethan-iversons-list-of-ecm.html","date_published":"2026-03-29T15:48:09+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-29 15:48","date_timestamp":1774799289,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rliaknrkcvekkizv7rjkk6mb/post/3mi7ipdpinb2c"]}},{"id":"87168092","content_html":"The pianist in particular had become essentially intractable; it was the drummer who had grown into one of the musicians of the age.
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When did Channel 4 streaming stop being available in Ireland (Republic)? A few weeks ago, I could watch it online with no problems. Suddenly it’s saying it’s only available in the UK 🤷🏻♂️
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/2026/03/24/reading-this-irish-times-story.html","date_published":"2026-03-24T11:47:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-24 11:47","date_timestamp":1774352825,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rliaknrkcvekkizv7rjkk6mb/post/3mhsiwb4udb2t"]}},{"id":"86682384","content_html":"How much you value life: Somerset Maugham, Ashenden stories: letter.talkaboutbooks.net
","summary":"Somerset Maugham’s First World War spy is more an observer than a man of action, appropriately for someone whose role is the gathering of intelligence.","url":"https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/2026/03/21/how-much-you-value-life.html","date_published":"2026-03-21T18:03:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-21 18:03","date_timestamp":1774116198,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rliaknrkcvekkizv7rjkk6mb/post/3mhlmmhyrrs2e"]}},{"id":"86555462","content_html":"\n\neyelashes like draught excluders
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Tana French, The Keeper 📖 Looking forward to this, though I probably won’t read it till the paperback comes out in about a year’s time.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/artkavanagh/86031107","date_published":"2026-03-12T08:03:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-12 08:03","date_timestamp":1773302613,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"86011417","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781844088621/cover.jpg\")
\nIn the late 70s my aunt was enthusing wildly about Sweet William, so I started to read her copy and really didn’t get on with it. I gave up and haven’t tried to read anything else by Bainbridge till now. I just read it over the past few days and I found the humour too cruel for my taste 🙁 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/2026/03/11/in-the-late-s-my.html","date_published":"2026-03-11T23:32:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-11 23:32","date_timestamp":1773271931,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rliaknrkcvekkizv7rjkk6mb/post/3mgt2bc4qsz2j"]}},{"id":"85979310","content_html":"If he dies? You mean he might be immortal?
\n![Headline from the i paper reading “Russia: Analysis: Putin is coughing and croaking. This is what happens if he dies\"](\"https://eu.uploads.micro.blog/5102/2026/putin-coughs.png\")
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\nIt’s more or less the iPad I’ve been longing for: no touchscreen and an integrated keyboard!
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/artkavanagh/85964182","date_published":"2026-03-11T10:49:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-11 10:49","date_timestamp":1773226172,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85911690","content_html":"@adders If you’ve got to have a venture capitalist as CEO, it’s best to make him as interim as possible. But some interim CEOs can be quite long-lived.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/artkavanagh/85911690","date_published":"2026-03-10T16:46:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-10 16:46","date_timestamp":1773161162,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85889454","content_html":"Deep Down is one of the 20 or more Pieranunzi albums that I have but I haven’t listened to it recently. Thanks to Ethan Iverson for the reminder 🎶🎹
\n","summary":"","url":"https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/2026/03/10/deep-down-is-one-of.html","date_published":"2026-03-10T09:47:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-10 09:47","date_timestamp":1773136046,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rliaknrkcvekkizv7rjkk6mb/post/3mgp3p4smrj2p"]}},{"id":"85774398","content_html":"Masochism and submission in books by Jillian Keenan, Mary Gaitskill and Sally Rooney: letter.talkaboutbooks.net
","summary":"Comparing a memoir (Sex with Shakespeare), some short stories (including “Secretary”) and a novel (Normal People), all of which deal in one way or another with themes of masochism and/or submissiveness.","url":"https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/2026/03/08/masochism-and-submission-in-books.html","date_published":"2026-03-08T17:07:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-08 17:07","date_timestamp":1772989652,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"85324033","content_html":"People should read more French novels, says Cecily Carver. She makes a good case for Stendhal’s The Charterhouse of Parma … and for starting with Balzac.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/2026/03/02/people-should-read-more-french.html","date_published":"2026-03-02T09:31:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-02 09:31","date_timestamp":1772443900,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rliaknrkcvekkizv7rjkk6mb/post/3mg2x5feqcs2v"]}},{"id":"85283594","content_html":"@agilelisa I read it sometime before 2006, when most of us knew a lot less about autism than we do now and several years before my nephew was diagnosed, and I thought it was OK, though I haven’t been tempted to read it again since. It made me wonder whether I might have Asperger’s (to use the then current terminology). It turns out that I don’t, but I’m glad I looked into the possibility. Haddon never claimed to be an expert on the subject, or anything other than a writer of fiction, but came in for a lot of (as it seemed to me) unfair criticism as if he had held himself out as some kind of authority.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/artkavanagh/85283594","date_published":"2026-03-01T17:10:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-01 17:10","date_timestamp":1772385034,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85282096","content_html":"@ayjay I wouldn’t have The Verge or TechCrunch in my feed reader anyway. For sites that post frequently or on a predictable schedule, I just visit the website. I use NNW primarily for feeds that are updated irregularly.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/artkavanagh/85282096","date_published":"2026-03-01T16:49:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-03-01 16:49","date_timestamp":1772383742,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"85206860","content_html":"\n\nIronically, high housing costs, seen as a sign of wealth by some, taken together with a thriving multinational sector, seen as a sign of economic success, is probably the most disastrous combination militating against the establishment of a diverse, healthy economy.
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David McWilliams, Irish Times
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","summary":"Lisa Lutz’s The Accomplice is the story of inseparable, long-term friends Luna and Owen. Owen is suspected of being responsible for the deaths, 15 years apart, of a former girlfriend and his wife, while Luna still hasn’t shaken off feelings of guilt over something she did when she was 11 years...","url":"https://letter.talkaboutbooks.net/2026/02/22/guilt-and-friendship-lisa-lutz.html","date_published":"2026-02-22T19:04:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Art Kavanagh","url":"https://www.artkavanagh.ie","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fartkavanagh%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"artkavanagh"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-22 19:04","date_timestamp":1771787044,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rliaknrkcvekkizv7rjkk6mb/post/3mfhtejmlns22"]}},{"id":"84790810","content_html":"@bitdepth I love this. I’ll even admit to liking the remake (which I saw first).
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