Brain experiments have yet to shed light on the ‘freedom that matters’, says philosopher Markus Schlosser

In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett

The myth and memory of Thomas Michael Kettle, steeped in both the Great Warand the Easter Rising, live on

London Letter: Over 90% of books are on shelves, offering endless hours of browsing

Thousands face immediate evacuation if Lille tribunal decides against them on Tuesday

Bono, Richard Branson, Demi Moore and Marianne Faithful among guests at wedding in France

Scandal threatened to bring down Harold MacMillan’s government in the 1960s

Theatre hosts ‘zombie’ politician performance as Russia discourages Halloween celebrations

With the Dublin Theatre Festival kicking off this week, here are ten playwrights who have also penned novels

Whether it comes as with a bang or a whimper, the ending of an act of theatre gives it shape and meaning. At best, it leaves us wanting more.

Simon Stephens’s ‘Punk Rock’ is coming to the Lyric, in a statement of intent by the Belfast theatre’s new boss. So will it deliver something ‘live, direct, physical and unpredictable’?

Shortlisted this week for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, Audrey Magee’s ‘The Undertaking’ has the second World War as its backdrop. Here’s a selection of our favourite literary quotations on war

The Shed, an intimate space at home to experimental theatre, seems like a venue designed to suit the times. At the heart of its success is Ben Power, a dramaturg, ‘shadowy figure’ and Shakespeare’s ‘remixer’

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, now 30 years old, are a vital part of Dublin’s cultural quarter

No novelist would dare dream up the Dreyfus affair, the spy scandal that engulfed France, but the author of ‘Fatherland’, ‘Enigma’ and ‘Ghost’ effectively tells its story in his new book, ‘An Officer and a Spy’

We search for meaning in the world. Why won’t theatre play ball?

‘How cheap the wine is makes a positive difference to the taste’

When a two-person play becomes a one-man show, what are the benefits of theatrical downsizing?