Ruth, the impish narrator of Kate Riley’s debut novel, is born into a little and little-known Anabaptist sect in Michigan. Riley, drawing on her own experience, feels no rush to lay out the group’s ...

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Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House; 1,040 pages; $40 and £33 A superb biography of William F. Buckley, the most influential American journalist ...

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Enoch Burke had already been facing an application by the school to have him sent back to prison Enoch Burke is facing further separate applications for contempt over his behaviour in court and for ...

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The High Court has ordered the immediate reimprisonment of teacher Enoch Burke. None of the Burke family were present in court on Tuesday when Mr Justice Brian Cregan gave a judgment in relation to Mr ...

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A JUDGE has said Enoch Burke and his family have committed “the most deliberate, sustained and concerted attack” on the civil courts and the rule of law in Ireland in recent times as he jailed the ...

December 8, 2025 • Fresh Air's book critic says her picks tilt a bit to nonfiction, but the novels that made the cut redress the imbalance by their sweep and intensity. Karen Russell's The Antidote ...

A newly constituted appeals committee, due last Saturday to hear Enoch Burke’s appeal of his dismissal by Wilson’s Hospital School, had to be postponed after the teacher sought a review of a Court of ...

Enoch Burke at the High Court, in Dublin, in October 2025 The Irish teacher Enoch Burke has been returned to prison by the High Court in Dublin. Mr Justice Cregan said that Mr Burke and members of his ...