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

Poetic Parishes – Frank McNally on a new book about Baggotonia and the new Kavanagh museum in Inniskeen

An Irishman’s Diary

We Can be Heroes: A defiantly unthreatening movie from the oldest kid on the block

Review: Just try and stay out of the room for the excruciatingly sunny David Bowie cover

Neck trouble, philosophy and defiance: A literary guide to middle age

Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature

A defence of finance drawing on the arts

The route to instilling more of an ethical compass in finance is by putting it through a prism of art and literature, argues new book by Harvard professor

It doesn’t matter when you got your brain injury – all care should be fit for purpose

Division and parsing of human suffering by age and condition can be a hazard of advocacy

Going Postal – An Irishman’s Diary about the revolutionary history of the Post Office

TV review: ‘Doctor Thorne’ is a terrific romp, while cricket and GAA trade places

Review: ‘Doctor Thorne’, ‘Dunblane: Our Story’, ‘The toughest Trade’

The rich man’s Dickens? Anthony Trollope and his low-key bicentenary

Trollope is still popular so why was interest in his bicentenary so patchy? Perhaps because mainstream fans lean to the right while his academic champions lean to the left

Hong Kong to remove British emblems from post boxes

Decision over colonial-era royal insignia stirs controversy as some fight to ‘retain heritage’

Anthony Trollope: an honorary and honourable Irish writer

Side by side with our appreciation of Trollope as an acclaimed English novelist, we need to take stock of him as an honorary Irish writer of considerable achievement, argues the author of Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland

White truths: why novelist Edmund White believes love is worth dying for

Candour and honesty define the life and work of Edmund White, the prolific American novelist with a genius for expressing the agonies of human sexuality