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

The Masque of the Red Death – Rediscovering Poe through prism of Covid-19

Restoration of 1964 Corman adaptation confirms continuing relevance of film and source

Dublin International Film Festival 2020: Memorable matriarchal themes

Writer, actor and activist John Connors has two directorial efforts in the festival

The Call of the Wild: Harrison Ford in one of his most engaging performances

Review: This is exactly the kind of big-hearted entertainment that was once Disney’s stock in trade

Abel Ferrara: ‘You can’t imagine the life I’ve led’

The Bronx filmmaker talks spirituality, creative bonds and his Italian-Irish roots

Fire and brimstone – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Californian catastrophes

Philip Roth's final interview: 'Life can stop on a dime'

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

Food for thought – An Irishman’s Diary about James Joyce, ‘The Dead’, and Ada Rehan

Dinner time

Hubert Mingarelli bares his literary soul

The French author has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 for ‘A Meal in Winter’, an elegant meditation on the Holocaust

Bad lands: Fahrenheit 451 and other fiery dystopias

Ray Bradbury’s great dystopian vision is 60. Thankfully the book-burning world it depicts has not yet come to pass, so we can still read it and other dark visions

The Accursed, by Joyce Carol Oates

The hothouse atmosphere of Princeton proves a perfect setting for real-life historical figures to get some gothic surprises