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Father Mother Sister Brother review: The lowest point of Jim Jarmusch’s wildly uneven film is sadly the Dublin section
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Jesse Malin on his life-changing spinal stroke: ‘I’m still in a lot of pain. I’m still working all the time on my body’
The New York songwriter, who has just written the memoir Almost Grown, on his recovery and taking inspiration from Shane MacGowan’s resilience
Music books: From the ugly side of the business to becoming a household name, and a dialogue of trust
Love Magic Power Danger Bliss: Yoko Ono and the Avant-Garde Diaspora; A Hard Day’s Night; The Evolution of American Film Music, 1960s-1990s
In a Word... Hamlet
Omelette was a scrambled version of Shakespeare’s play that we staged as students at the then University College Galway
Holly Humberstone: ‘I have to look nice, or my album isn’t going to sell. The same rules don’t apply for dudes’
The singer was still at school when the BBC discovered her. By 2024 she was opening for Taylor Swift – yet she still doesn’t have the music industry all figured out, she says
Ciarán Hinds: ‘Liam Neeson wanted a go at being a film star. I didn’t have that in my DNA’
As his new film, The Three Urns, arrives, the actor talks on-set reunions, ‘proper adventures’ and his Belfast upbringing free from ‘awareness of the huge tribal divide’
The Z-factor: Zendaya and the secret of The Drama’s success
Did film’s crafty marketing campaign work or are people queuing up to see movie stars again?
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
Young Forever: The Death of Ageing?, Gordon Ramsay’s Secret Service, Margo’s Got Money Troubles and more
Four new films to see this week: Father Mother Sister Brother, Undertone, You, Me & Tuscany, The Stranger
Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Halle Bailey, Benjamin Voisin and Rebecca Marder feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 10th, 2026
Buzzy, starry-eyed YA titles argue for the importance of the arts
YA fiction reads for April from Caryl Lewis, Méabh Collins, Derek Landy, Susie Nadler and a debut from Stephen Daly
Mary O’Donnell: ‘I’d happily sign off on a 10% Leaving Cert bonus for English, music and art’
A desire to ‘rip into a subject that has sat like a succubus on me’ inspired writer’s first novel since 2014
Dave Grohl: ‘I’ll write something I have a hard time saying ... It feels good to scream that shit’
Foo Fighters frontman on tracking phases of his life through albums, reflecting on the band’s early days and what their future might look like
Trump’s World Cup has a strong whiff of the last days of Rome
With a host nation at war and ‘Fifa’ rendered as a swear word, escapism will be hard to find this summer
Author Emma Donoghue: ‘I grew up very normal, yet had this secret side that I thought everyone would consider foul’
The writer on literary reputation, emigration and ‘the crushing weight of being the only gay in the village’
An Arrow in Flight by Mary Lavin: Excellent exploration of a different yet similar Ireland
Country she depicts is not romanticised but simply lived in: a world of small houses, strained marriages and worried parents
Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold edited by Ailbhe Malone – Breathtakingly varied tales rekindle storytelling tradition
Authorial relish and exuberance are apparent on every page of this short story collection, with contributions from Naoise Dolan, Sarah Maria Griffin and more
