FIONA O’CONNOR recommends an accessible and entertaining survey of post-war French philosophy and its relation to contemporary capitalism

FIONA O’CONNOR admires a collection that is a riposte to the armies of developers, estate agents, private capital speculators and their marketeers

FIONA O’CONNOR examines a new book by Labour’s media-savvy MP and new Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls

FIONA O'CONNOR endorses an examination of how current neoliberal policies sweep social care and welfare burdens into hidden abodes and increase exploitative pressures, particularly on working-class women

FIONA O’CONNOR treasures the work of Edna O’Brien for the depth of evocation of psychologies, desires and losses among ordinary lives

FIONA O’CONNOR relishes the revelation that capitalist assumptions are fundamentally different to the peasant’s relation to the land 

What better guide for our times, say FIONA O’CONNOR than the example of remarkable women who thought through the experience of WWII

FIONA O’CONNOR marvels at a highly original collection of essays that explores the changing status and the meanings made by women’s voices

FIONA O’CONNOR calls attention to the achievement of a great Yugoslav exponent of intelligent, fearless humanitarianism

FIONA O’CONNOR recommends two novels telling of real contemporary experiences that question the nature of liberty and fraternity in present times

Mining the momentous in mundane journeys through French capital

Timely counsel from the worldly wise

Acute observations on growing deployment of artificial intelligence and automation in the workplace

Mordant reflections on a France veering rightwards

Solace for troubled soul in Ireland’s natural world

Acute observations on women’s experience from a veteran radical

Why the new machine age promised by artificial intelligence and digitital technology is a myth

RF Foster takes the measure of one of the most powerful wordsmiths of the 20th century

Challenging essays on sex and reactionary morality

Grim reality of unbridled free-market policies for US poor

In May this year Irish citizens will vote in a referendum on abortion rights. FIONA O’CONNOR explains how her new play seeks to encourage women to make sure they vote for their right to choose