From Shakespeare to Emily Bronte, literature has featured strongly across her 10 albums

Review: Lenny Abrahamson’s impressively clammy follow-up to the all-conquering 'Room'

English translation of a masterful, deeply mysterious novel about female isolation

Review: It’s a shame Sergio G Sánchez didn’t stretch himself more in his directorial debut

The great American writer on Trump, the #MeToo movement and living the retirement life

The Florida Project is Sean Baker's acclaimed new film, a comedy about children living in budget motels in the shadow of Disney World

James invented the ‘psychological novel’ in The Portrait of a Lady. How could I not follow the fortunes of its heroine?

‘Owen Wingrave’ fails to come to theatrical life

The French count burned through $10 million of his American heiress wife’s fortune. Their treasures are for sale for the first time in over a century

Bin the fancy self-help books you got for Christmas and heed the wisdom of three great thinkers

Fantasy and reality fuse in an ambitious and linguistically powerful Irish debut

The Irish writer has teamed up with Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss and Volker Schlöndorff to make his first film, about ‘rewriting reality’

Kate Beckinsale might be a go-to girl for Jane Austen adaptations, in between badass superhero roles. But her family life growing up had more to do with miners’ marches, Trotskyism and having their phone tapped

Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death

Conspiracy theory

As the film of ‘Brooklyn’ gets good reviews, Tóibín’s status at home and abroad rises yet another notch

Moral truths can’t be spoon-fed to people by priests or sages, says Sarin Marchetti, invoking the wisdom of William James

As even the hostile critic FR Leavis conceded, in Yeats’s poetry ‘there is no element of a man’s experience in the twentieth century that, of its nature, it excludes’

Ashley Judd says she will press charges over threats made in the US, but imprisoning people for saying nasty things is a tricky business

First in new discussion series hosted by an Irish journalist in London will feature public interview with historian Roy Foster

You may be too old to go trick or treating, but are you brave enough to read one of these tales before you go to sleep tonight?

An Irishman’s Diary about sociolinguistics

This extract from ‘The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses’ traces the genesis of a classic

Merrion Square has a selection of sharp, new, modern sculptures – and one buried secret

Adam Begley’s cold life of John Updike misses the man by focusing on the fiction

With the Dublin Writers Festival kicking off this week, here are 10 great books with writers as their subject

Books goes meta-fictional and multi-story with our list of mega tales about telling tales

Donna Leon’s much-loved crime series centring on nice guy policeman Commissario Guido Brunetti is 22 years old. The new novel discusses the very nature of books

An Irishman's Diary on the battle between the Abbey and the English censor

Damon Galgut’s new novel could easily be yet another work of lightly fictionalised biography, yet it is far more than that

Samuel L Clemens dictated hundreds of pages of autobiography that ranged from the nonexistence of God to postal-service vagaries

This masterful writer’s rural-Ireland background invariably emerges from her sophisticated portraits of female sensibility

Mary Beckett: January 28th, 1926-November 10th, 2013

Munro’s genius is in the short story, and that is what makes her winning the Nobel Prize for Literature so exciting

‘It is not easy to like,’ the candid author says of her latest novel, the Booker-shortlisted ‘The Lowland’

Frank McGuinness’s new play, The Hanging Gardens, and Arimathea, the novel he thought he should write as research for it, draw deeply on his experience of growing up in a threatening, oppressive Ireland

An Irishwoman’s Diary: Sharp insights live on 120 years after his death

This production compresses Nathaniel Hawthorne’s epic into a 90-minute slot, and succeeds thanks to its seductive atmosphere

The brittle genius of Zelda Fitzgerald shines through in this exploration of her husband’s masterpiece