The Occasional 2
The second edition of The Occasional, a off-shoot of The Fortnightly, for paid subscribers of the older newsletter is out today.
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This time: Brian Klaas’s fascinating and compelling Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and why Everything We do Matters; Clair Wills’s highly personal history (a useful companion to Claire Keegan’s novel Small Things Like These) Missing Persons; The first two short novels in John Boyne’s The Elements tetralogy, Earth and Water. Victoria Kennefick’s recent essay in the Irish Times (background for her second poetry collection, egg/shell; plus: NYT books of the 21st century, Conor Murphy on AI in English teaching, Michael Longley, Alice Etches on self-checkout machines, and more.