Mind your language when it comes to workplace communications

Casual conversations on instant messaging about a work colleague might end up in the hands of that colleague

Maureen Dowd: Democrats yearn to hear Mueller scream ‘this is a real national emergency’

No one, from the president down, knew when the report would come or what it would say

Matt Wilson review: A great jazz vehicle for Carl Sandburg’s poetry

Bob Dylan could tackle changing times in Nobel speech

This weekend, the literary giant will be celebrated at the Nobel prize-giving ceremony. He harnesses the power of language like nobody else

‘Poetry’s advocates don’t need to go on the defensive: it speaks for itself’

As he publishes his eighth collection of poetry, 46 years after his first work appeared in print, the Irish Times Poetry Editor recalls how verse insinuated its way into his life via Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and the Beats

His and hers: the men of Chanticleer sing all the parts

Between them the 12 men cover a choral spectrum of about four octaves. How?