In My Own Words: Hanif Kureishi review – Author revisits hedonistic life after entering a zone of death
Television: The author and playwright, who suffered life-changing injuries after a fall in 2022, revisits his life and career
Salman Rushdie
Local history: Cartoonish cruelty betrays a fundamentalist who would not cotton on
The Reverend Psychopath: Suffer Little Children, Terror, Tears and Tragedy: The Mount Cashells and the Notorious Divorce Case of 1876, and Under the Metal Man: Sligo in Yeats
Brendan O’Connor brings his contrary streak to a cosy conversation about immigration
Radio: Even at his most factually minded, the RTÉ presenter can’t resist his mischievous side
Salman Rushdie: ‘The first thing that comes into my mind each morning is: I don’t have my right eye’
Novelist explains why he chose not to talk to his would-be murderer, and what he discovered about himself when fatwa was issued against him
Knife by Salman Rushdie review: living to tell the tale of being saved by love
Knife is surprisingly upbeat for a book about being stabbed in the head
Retroland: A Reader’s Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction – A critical machete wielded mercilessly
Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel, John Banville and Roddy Doyle might wince at some of the judgments contained within
Martin Amis obituary: A writer who combined moral seriousness with mordant wit
His loss will be felt keenly at a time when Anglophone literature is mired in a charmless and po-faced moral earnestness
Where has the rock star male novelist gone?
The #MeToo movement has made men in literature more cautious
One Small Voice: Engaging debut novel offers sharp, human insights into India
Santanu Bhattacharya writes with verve, intelligence and compassion with a range of characters crossing religion, caste and class
Victory City review: This isn’t Salman Rushdie’s best book. But it is chilling in the light of his stabbing
Salman Rushdie’s 15th novel, about an eternally youthful femme fatale fighting religious fundamentalism, sticks to the author’s fiction formula
Salman Rushdie, blind in one eye after being stabbed on stage, says he feels lucky and grateful
In his first interview since being attacked at New York literary event, the author reflects on the support he received from first responders
Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and use of one hand, agent says
Author was stabbed in neck and torso on stage in New York state last August
‘Would you like to visit my grave?’ The farmer planning a home burial
Martin Neary has permission to be buried on his own lands in Co Mayo when he dies
‘Cheaper than a divorce’: Four writers on carving out space at home for their work
Having a ‘room of one’s own’ can help writers get the right work from home balance - but not always
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
House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
Kim Kardashian West at 40: How the queen of social media changed the world
Why is Kardashian West, who exchanged privacy for wealth, so famous?
Nick Cave criticises cancel culture as ‘bad religion run amuck’
Political correctness has ‘asphyxiating effect on the creative soul of a society’, musician says
150m Shades of Grey: How the bestsellers changed our sex lives
EL James’s books triggered an erotica boom. They have also been cited in sex-crime cases
Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are joint winners
Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood
‘I believed it’: John Banville was told he won 2019 Nobel Prize in hoax call
Author says he was phoned by Swedish Academy number shortly before announcement
Peter Handke’s controversial Nobel prize win causes outrage
Writers including Salman Rushdie criticise the 2019 Nobel laureate over support for ‘genocidal regime of Slobodan Miloševic’
There’s no place like home: The Wizard of Oz, 80 years on
We all have our own Oz, be it fame, money or love. For immigrant families like mine, it is usually an actual place
‘After sex on the damp sheets, we passed out’: Lowlights from Moby’s memoir
Natalie Portman has disputed the musician’s account of their ‘relationship’. But fear not: his new book has plenty more steamy stories
Europe ‘coming apart before our eyes’, say 30 writers, historians and nobel laureates
Despite its ‘mistakes, lapses, and occasional acts of cowardice’, Europe remains ‘the second home of every free man and woman’
From Notre Dame to Haji Ali Dargah Mosque, a parade of holy places in fiction
Since Chaucer there has been a rich tradition of writers inspired by religious buildings
Ian McEwan: adapting books for movies is ‘technically challenging’
‘On Chesil Beach is about a young, sexually inexperienced couple on a miserable honeymoon
Sean Penn’s debut novel – repellent and stupid
The Oscar-winning actor’s foray into fiction, with Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, has met derision online. Can it be that bad?
How Ruth Fitzmaurice found her tribe in Ladies Cove, Greystones
Fitzmaurice's memoir 'I Found My Tribe' is a joyful and raw account of life after her husband’s MND diagnosis
Sharon Horgan: My friend Carrie Fisher, ‘actress, mother, daughter, lunatic, legend’
Fisher’s final acting role was in Horgan’s TV show, ‘Catastrophe’. The night before the Hollywood legend returned to LA, they went for dinner. Here, Horgan recalls that evening, and their friendship
Kathy Sheridan: The appalling decline in the quality of public insults
We all have the right to offend but not a licence to be coarse and vulgar
Saudi sheikh pays the price for standing up to religious police
Many in Saudi Arabia privately agree with cleric who questions tenets of Wahhabism
Richard Pine: Refugee crisis is Greek tragedy and EU’s shame
There has been a breakdown of European ethics in favour of bourgeois security
Booker winner Marlon James tops Tarantino for body count
‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ is based on attempt to kill reggae king Bob Marley
Irish Lives: Dicing with death in former Soviet territory
Documentary maker Mark Walsh finally felt he had to intervene, and now works for MSF
Alternative summer reads with a dark side
Like many good summer reads, these three novels are moving page-turners, but their headlong dive into the dark challenge the notion of sun-holiday fiction
Günter Grass, Nobel-winning novelist dies aged 87
Author of The Tin Drum passes away in hospital in Lübeck
Lars Vilks profile: maverick artist who knows he is a target
Even before attack on cafe where he was speaking, Vilks had armed protection
The New Censorship review: journalists on the chopping block
In today’s web-encircled world, the media increasingly gets the message: publish and you will be damned
Daniel Day Lewis, Salman Rushdie, Colm Toibín in new book
Stars to contribute to project about fathers and sons to raise funds for the Irish Hospice Foundation
US use of Shannon Airport makes Ireland a target - Anjem Choudary
Preacher says Charlie Hebdo attack victims were to blame for their own deaths
The cultural quotes of the year: madness, middle age and mother’s advice
A selection of the best, oddest and most memorable musings by some of the world’s artistic greats, as told to Irish Times writers
Archive of human rights activist to be unveiled at NUI Galway
A visit to Detroit reminded Kevin Boyle ‘of the ghettos of Belfast’
Nobel laureate Malala denounced by Pakistani schools group
Criticism of teenager shot by Taliban includes designated ‘I am not Malala’ day
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
Baiting the censor: 10 books they tried to suppress
Hilary Mantel’s short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher caused outrage with its recent publication in the Guardian, but it’s not the first and won’t be last piece of fiction to raise hackles
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
Television: Feeling a lorra love for UTV’s engrossing Cilla Black biopic
Review: The Liverpool luvvy gets the Jeff Pope treatment; ‘The Leftovers’ is a beautiful-people redo of ‘The Returned’
Ben Okri: ‘We are poised on the edge of a crisis’
Nigeria, with its tradition of exuberant storytelling, is central to the writer’s identity. He’s alarmed by the Boko Haram abductions there – part of a series of events that could, he says, trigger something terrible
Hot debate at sunny Dalkey book event
Festival featured a range of authors including Sebastian Barry, Donal Ryan and John Banville
Salman Rushdie: ‘You have to accept a certain level of disrespect’
Dalkey debate covers topics from death threats, Edward Snowden and Fr Ted
Salman Rushdie: from Mordor verse to Midnight’s Children
He likes to blur the lines between fact and fiction, and if pushed he might recite some Tolkien in Elvish – this is not the type of conversation one associates with Rushdie
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