Stephen King’s prolific writing will leave future generations grateful

Donald Clarke: Problem is not with the writer but with the smallness of the critics’ minds

A deep dive into YouTube: So much of it is unrelentingly boring

Patrick Freyne immerses himself in the musings, stunts and tears of YouTube’s biggest stars

Book quiz: ‘A plague on both your houses’ is from which Shakespeare play?

Welcome to The Irish Times book quiz: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge

Don’t judge a book by its coverage

Donald Clarke: BBC’s ‘novels that shaped our world’ list is terrible in a very particular way

Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are joint winners

Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood

Yes, you should feel bad for not finishing (insert classic novel here)

Donald Clarke: Guilt is an important aspect of life and a vital part of the reading experience

Jagged Little Pill isn’t the only sacred cow that deserves a kicking

Donald Clarke: A new print of A Clockwork Orange is on the way – get your boots on

Various: All the Young Droogs review – Renegades, nomads and a 15-year-old Bryan Adams

Anthony Cronin: a man of achievement

Few writers could rival his versatility or claim such influence as adviser to two Taoisigh

The original Jaws resurfaces in Sligo

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the auction house . . . A first edition of Jaws and a drawing by its author are snapped up

Review | Every Time A Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal, by Jay Parini

A friend and fan unpicks the complicated life of one of one of America’s finest writers

Bloomsday 1982: when Jorge Luis Borges and Anthony Burgess came to pay homage

Anthony Cronin, begetter of the first Bloomsday celebration in 1954, organised one of Dublin’s greatest literary events to mark the centenary of James Joyce’s birth in 1982

Brought to Book: Jonathan Meades on the trial and execution of Tony Blair

‘Learn the word for everything and remember them. Learn the rules and forget them’

Anthony Burgess on James Joyce: the lost introduction

Written in 1986 as the introduction to a Dolmen Press edition of ‘Dubliners’ illustrated by Louis le Brocquy, but never used, this brilliant essay, recently found among the papers of the author, who died in 1993, appears here for the first time