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James Gray: 'I went back to the US and got told I was nothing'
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High-brow Yale tours and low-brow fun in beautiful Connecticut
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Ismael’s Ghosts: Marion Cotillard turns up, and things get messy
Review: The wife who went missing 20 years ago reappears and introduces herself to her husband’s new squeeze
Claire Denis: ‘We are normal people. Even though we are French’
The distinguished film-maker continues her experiments in the unpredictable with her latest work – just don’t go asking what it’s like being a female director
Karl Ove Knausgaard: ‘I’m not f**king around. This is hardcore’
Bestselling Norwegian novelist insists he is not a good writer. He has been corrupted by pleasing people, he says
A remote part of Norway where life is kept frozen
Artist Michael John Whelan is continuously drawn to the world’s most northerly settlement of more than 1,000 people
Moby: The secret of success? 'Don’t have a fallback plan'
Moby’s new memoir is less about showbiz and more about clawing hs way out of poverty in the late 1980s
New film sparks memories of ‘Moby Dick’ in Youghal
Residents recall having a whale of a time when Hollywood legends arrived in 1954
An A-Z of stories of the sea, from Conrad to Cervantes, Defoe to Patrick O’Brian
Norman Freeman got a taste for maritime yarns studying for his radio officer’s certificate in Kevin Street. As his own book comes out, he explores the classics of the tradition
Villa America: Decadence and repression in a jazz age American marriage
Liza Klaussmann’s novel crashes a fictional gay pilot into the real-life marriage of socialites Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy, turning a story of glamour into something much deeper
Eat your words
With the Ballymaloe Literary Festival taking place this weekend, here are 20 literary quotations to whet the appetite
Mad men and women in fiction
From Jane Eyre’s madwoman in the attic to Captain Ahab in Moby Dick and Francie in The Butcher Boy, madness is a recurring and compelling theme in literature
Fanimal fiction
Adapted from the children’s book by Michael Morpurgo, ‘War Horse’ is currently showing in Dublin’s Bord Gais Energy Theatre. Here are 10 of our favourite literary quotes inspired by animals
Your favourite opening lines in literature
After a huge response to our feature on great opening lines, we’ve assembled our favourite openers posted by readers
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