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In The Irish Times tomorrow, Giuliano da Empoli, author of The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World, talks to Mark Paul. Olivia Laing tells John Self about their new novel, The Silver Book. And there is a Q&A with Kevin Smith about his latest novel, Injury Time.

Reviews are Michael Cronin on Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World by Anne Enright; Joseph O’Connor on Bread of Angels by Patti Smith; Declan O’Driscoll on the best new fiction in translation; Nathan Smith on Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood; Andrew Lynch on Dynasty: Scandals, Triumph, Turmoil and Succession at the Heart of Dunnes Stores by Matt Cooper; Kevin Power on Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith; John Walshe on The Palestinians by Jonathan Dimbleby and Don McCullin; Ruby Eastwood on One of Us by Elizabeth Day; Claire Hennessy on Philip Pullman’s The Rose Field; and Sara Keating on children’s fiction.

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John Boyne’s Les Éléments has won the 2025 Prix Femina for Foreign Fiction at a ceremony at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris this week, the second major French literary award it has won in as many months.

The Prix Femina is one of France’s most prestigious literary awards, created in 1904 by women writers seeking to offer an alternative to the male-dominated Goncourt Prize.