Laurence Sterne

Sterne reminder – Sean Byrne on Tristram Shandy and Mullingar

An Irishman’s Diary

Widow’s weeds – An Irishman’s Diary about poppies, war, and John McCrae

Mia Gallagher: A decade spent making strange lost worlds

It has taken 10 years for Mia Gallagher to follow up her debut novel, but the almost labyrinthine Beautiful Pictures of the Lost Homeland is well worth getting lost in

Javier Marías: ‘General Franco always seemed ridiculous: a short, ugly man with a shrill voice’

Growing up in Madrid under Franco, novelist Javier Marías secretly mocked the fascist leader. The period after Spain’s transition to democracy is the setting for his latest book

From Bram to Brooklyn: 10 great films adapted from Irish literature

Lenny Abrahamson’s Room and John Crowley’s Brooklyn vie for the best picture Oscar this weekend. They are part of a grand tradition

Fintan O’Toole’s top British novels

The Irish Times literary editor was one of 82 foreigners polled by the BBC to choose the 100 best British novels. Read how he got on

David Butler: ‘Great writers enrich experience, even the mundane’

Brought to Book Q&A: Author of The Judas Kiss and City of Dis on what he reads and how he writes

Maverick of the Russian masters

A new translation of the stories of Nikolai Leskov confirms that although different, he is the equal of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Turgenev