Tori Amos: Diving Deep Live – An A-grade tour of the singer’s lesser-spotted B-sides and deep cuts
Few cut a more fascinating figure than Amos, whose stage performances have long offered a more profound and esoteric experience than her studio work
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Tori Amos on Neil Gaiman, sexism and trauma: ‘I’m sure that I have met men who treat me differently’
As she releases a new album, the singer-songwriter explains how failure has fuelled her career
Good Omens: Neil Gaiman’s bromance is as silly as a vicar in a tutu – and perfect escapism
Television: Michael Sheen and David Tennant return in a second season that benefits from plenty of fun, and surprisingly gory, plot padding
The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Ingeniously immersive and often quite genuinely scary
Theatre: The staging of the supernatural work of Neil Gaiman is big-budget showbiz at its best
‘Join the club’: Bestselling writers show support after just two people attend debut author’s book launch
Neil Gaiman, Stephen King and Margaret Atwood share their similar experiences with debut author
Patrick Freyne: The pandemic can’t end until Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends airs
The big shows I’m anticipating in 2022, featuring Baby Yoda and my wife’s other husband
A work blunder teaches so much more than a triumph
McKinsey ‘rookie moment’ bungle videos are positive example of how to survive early career howlers
Tori Amos: ‘We all carry around our damage’
Ocean to Ocean is the artist's latest album, written shortly after the death of her mother
50 scary films to watch at Halloween
Scare yourself silly with this list of everything from classic films to modern hits
Dive into Neil Gaiman’s Archive of Cool Stuff
Weblog: Daily posts, brilliant insights and free audiobooks from inspiring writer
The 10 worst films of the past 10 years
The worst film of the 2010s was so reactionary, materialistic and lazy it selected itself
Neil Gaiman, Ben Stiller and Monica Lewinsky, and the Twitter poem for refugees
Turning followers’ 1,000 tweets into What You Need to Be Warm was ‘ridiculously hard’
Amanda Palmer: ‘There’s nothing more nuclear than a woman telling it like it is’
The singer on Ireland’s abortion referendum, Fleabag, the joy of crowdfunding, and the weapons-grade rawness of her new album, There Will Be No Intermission
‘Irish have qualities that make us easy to get along with abroad’
Working Abroad Q&A: Film producer Sarah-Kate Fenelon, from Co Wicklow, talks about life working in Hollywood for author Neil Gaiman
Thousands of angry Christians petition Netflix to cancel show. There was just one big problem...
US Christian group condemns Good Omens show as ‘making satanism appear normal’ – but petition wrong company
Good Omens: All the signs are pointing to a great TV series
Neil Gaiman has adapted his and Terry Pratchett’s beloved joint novel for an Amazon Prime series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant. Will the gods smile on this one?
Neil Gaiman on honouring Terry Pratchett’s last request: ‘You have to do this’
The writer explains how his four years of intense devotion to ‘Good Omens’ will never happen again
What’s that stench? It’s the 10 worst films of 2018
From Fifty Shades Freed to sleazy Muppets in The Happytime Murders, the cinematic lowlights of the year
‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’: 40 years on
Douglas Adams’s novel is still a hilarious map to life’s terrain
The Cure’s Robert Smith: ‘I survived. A lot of people in London didn’t’
The singer and songwriter is planning to record the first Cure album in 10 years
The trouble with Ayn Rand and Zack Snyder’s ‘The Fountainhead’?
Reviled director to film reviled libertarian hero’s novel. This is a bad idea
Amanda Palmer: On My Culture Radar
The musician and activist on Laurie Anderson, the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky and how Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry helped her through difficult times
How to Talk to Girls at Parties: Punk movie is bunk
Review: Steer clear of John Cameron Mitchell’s aggressively appalling musical fantasia
Sorry, Domhnall Gleeson, I don’t want to chat to you anymore
My chatbot, which I’ve named after the Irish film star, is starting to get creepy and annoying
Oliver Jeffers: Before my son, I wrote my children’s books for myself
Bestselling author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers always had ‘a sense of curiosity about the world’. But his perspective changed with the arrival of his son
Terry Pratchett’s unpublished works destroyed by steamroller
The late author had requested the destruction of any unfinished projects after his death
How to talk to Girls at Parties review: Mad, bad and boring to know
Cannes 2017: There’s a lot of latex and little sense in this punks and aliens caper
American Gods review: Pleasing the disciples with a devout offering
Folding durable ancient myths into disposable Americana, American Gods must first appease the demands of Neil Gaiman’s fanbase
The Man in the High Castle is just the thing for your boxset-binge cravings
Amazon Prime’s fascist-America drama may not capture the zeitgeist perfectly, but it’s not far off
Seven small-screen reasons to welcome 2017
There are many things we could resolve to do this year – join a gym, fight fascism – but if the TV screen wins out instead, there are some promising shows to while away the hours
Patrick Freyne’s 2015: Don’t let them spoonfeed you – dish out your own art
If 2015 has taught me anything, it’s that art is not a spectator sport – everyone can join in
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
The cobwebs are blown off the English curriculum
A revamped list of texts has been brought in at secondary level. But is it too modern?
Review: An Evening with Amanda Palmer
A straight-up gig would never be rock and roll enough for Palmer, but this ramshackle approach take too many ukulele-fuelled diversions
Josie Long: ‘Everyone expects me to talk about politics’
She is known for political comedy, but in her new show she opens up about family and her broken heart
Hachette wants to turn Twitter into a bookstore
Publisher is testing whether a tweet from an author can directly trigger a sale
Spooky stories you won’t want to read in bed: Through the Woods
Review: Emily Carroll’s beautiful book is confidently written and lavishly designed
Tori Amos: ‘I wasn’t prepared for it. I was staring 50 straight in the eye’
Amos returns to her alt-pop piano roots on new album Unrepentant Geraldines, ‘a sonic selfie that I didn’t send to anybody’. She tells how her family snapped her out of the shock of reaching a half-century
Literacy is key to keeping children from life of disadvantage and crime
We need plans such as the Right to Read to save society from the scourge of drugs
Does Amanda Palmer have all the answers?
Amanda Palmer, fresh from her run-in with the Daily Mail, plays Dublin's Academy tonight. The feminist musician has become an oracle for a frantic music business treasure-hunting for answers. The street performer turned-Dresden Doll-turned-solo act-turned-Kickstarter million dollar fundraiser-turned TED talk sensation talks about her DIY philosophy with Una Mullally
Neil Gaiman's vision: ‘I wanted to get across what it’s like to be a kid in a strange world’
Neil Gaiman has written comic books, adult fiction, children’s stories and ‘Doctor Who’ episodes, but his latest novel took root in his Suffolk childhood
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