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‘We had touched on something: genuine schoolboy humour had never been put on paper before’
Maureen Dowd: Aliens, show yourself. Beam down! Time to serve man
With an intelligence report imminent, not since the 1950s has the capital been so riveted by the possibility of aliens hovering
Salman Rushdie: ‘I am stupidly optimistic – it got me through those bad years’
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
Words made flesh: Why author events are the new hot tickets
The growth of spoken-word festivals reflects our hunger for real-life experiences
Tragedy, magical thinking, and the lasting impact of grief
One day, when Geraldine de Brit was just seven years old, her mother and brother left the house and never came back. This is her story of the following days, weeks, months and years
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
Lords and Ladles: An appetising idea, an indigestible TV show
The culinary history programme has great ingredients, but they are rarely well served
Ian McEwan: adapting books for movies is ‘technically challenging’
‘On Chesil Beach is about a young, sexually inexperienced couple on a miserable honeymoon
‘If you’re from a family of writers, everything is fair game’
Nina Raine should know. Her father, a critic, once told her: `Your business is not to be worrying about people’s feelings. Because otherwise you will never write'
The Sense of an Ending review: A smart piece of translation
Julian Barnes’s dryly comic Booker winner is nimbly adapted to suit the demands of mainstream cinema
Irish publishers left on the shelf by Man Booker Prize
The awards preserve a system in which Irish work has to be passed on to a UK press
Auction is single largest sale of first edition books in Ireland
Auctioned collection included signed copy of Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of Salesman’
Patrick deWitt: ‘I am oftentimes drawn to unfashionable things’
The Man Booker shortlist author on the joys of Portland, writing modern fairytales, his next project, and why he felt he had no choice but to bin a 300-page novel he had finished
Reheats and repeat on UTV Ireland – elementary, my dear Watson
New Republic-only station seems attached to hokey Oirish travelogues as well as John Hinde advertising break and station ident imagery
How well do you know your Booker opening lines?
In the week that the 2014 Man Booker Prize was announced, see if you can match these opening lines to their Booker winning novels
Martin Amis: ‘How can one claim to be human without looking at what we have done?’
Martin Amis is a deeply moral writer with a Swiftian vigour. In his latest novel, ‘The Zone of Interest’, he returns to the story of the Nazi death camps
Choice Music Album of the Year: who’s got their eye on the prize?
Sinéad Gleeson checks the odds on the nominees for the 2014 Choice Music Prize
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