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Donald Clarke: Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before
Stephenie Meyer has retold Twilight from the vampire’s point of view. It’s a popular ploy
Late-20th century male authors and the way they might look at you
A story about Philip Roth leering at ‘colleens’ in Dublin exposes a Neanderthal attitude
Particle physics gives maths potentially powerful new tool
Mathematical analysis of how neutrinos interact with matter prompts discovery
Inept and dysfunctional? Trump is more effective than most of us hoped
US Politics: Kim Darroch was stating the obvious about US president – but was he right?
David McWilliams: Under the bonnet of Trump’s purring economic engine
The US economy seems to be ticking over nicely, but it’s fuelled by a near-$1tn deficit
Philip Roth: Prolific writer who explored life with simmering intensity
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Rejoice! Winter is over and the GAA is back
New schedules and reformed championships come into play as the action returns tonight
‘Best fans in the world’ left when they were needed most
O’Neill’s side fell apart – and that is why it was vital supporters remained part of the crowd
Editor who published Julia Child and Anne Frank’s diary
Obituary: Judith Jones, editor, born March 10th, 1924; died August 2nd, 2017
4th of July: Eileen Battersby’s best short stories for Independence Day
From Cheever to Ron Rash, Carver to Eudora Welty, O’Connor to Richard Ford, some of the finest American writing is to be found in the short form
Father’s Day: My father before he was a dad
Malachy Clerkin, Amy Huberman, Una Mullally and more on their fathers as young men
Patty’s Day, Patty’s Day, Patty’s Day: Say it loud and say it proud
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Diego Simeone is the man needed to shake it up at Arsenal
Twenty-two years of sustained, qualified success have gone in two months in London
Eileen Battersby: How can America begin to heal?
Where to now after one of the most corrosive US presidential elections in history
Janan Ganesh: Ukip has future as long as Labour alienates white working class
Let us not be coy: there are some on the left who are stumped by poor white people
America at Large: Fenway Park steeped in Ireland’s own troubled past
Dublin and Galway hurlers have lot of history to live up to in November
Review: We Don’t Know What We’re Doing, by Thomas Morris
Fresh, at times brilliant, debut short story collection portrays lost souls in Wales
Found in translation: giving voice to those who wrote ‘Hebrew Bible’
In his work on many books, Robert Alter aims to translate not just the poem but the poet
Thierry Henry lacking on-screen Va Va Voom
Arsenal legend has failed to live up to high expectations since joining Sky Sports
A war of attrition: Eileen Battersby on The Winter War, by Philip Teir
Review: A bland Scandinavian debut novel about a failing marriage – and a hamster – demonstrates just how difficult it can be for writers to make the ordinary compelling
An Irishwoman's Diary: A mercurial Peter Pan of literature
The great French writer Colette was the first French woman to be given a state funeral - although she was denied a Catholic one because of her two divorces
Baseball legend who hits home runs on the page
‘New Yorker’ writer Roger Angell is the game’s undisputed poet laureate
Brought to Book: Gerald Dawe on the joy of getting a book in place and the anxiety after
`Use it or lose it'
Is Irish literature too local to have philosophical heft?
In broader European and American literature, it is easier to find genuine marriages of philosophy and fiction
A good place to start: how to find the idea that can drive a novel
Irish authors tell us how and where they find inspiration for an idea strong enough to sustain a book, and how they go about turning that into an extended narrative
The art of writing about everything and nothing
Nicholson Baker’s 10th novel is mildly eccentric and at times self-indulgent, but it is also sharp, daring and honest
David Baddiel: ‘It was weird being depressed and having to go on TV’
On the comedian’s mind are anti-Semitism and how it is not really considered racism, his experience of fame as ‘a constant puncturing of the moment’, and doing stand-up again
Manil Suri wins Bad Sex in Fiction award for ‘quarks’ and ‘superheroes’ scene
Britain’s ‘Literary Review’ draws attention to ‘crude, badly written’ passages
Chip lit: literary feasts that will leave you hungry for more
Food has always found its way into fiction. There’s even a genre where eating forms the backdrop to the story
Rural stories of isolation and dark humour
Growing up in Co Mayo helped Colin Barrett shape wild visual narratives written in local voices
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