TS Eliot

Revelations can come to us in an instant and alter entire course of our existence

Coffee’s taking far too long/The young barista is singing a song/Don’t worry, be happy

It sometimes feels like we’ve run out of stories, and the only option is to return to what was said before

Hungarian auteur’s new film Sunset shows a vanished Budapest on the edge of change

People who travel back into their own past may come among us as strangers

As well as the religious symbolism of Easter the idea of becoming new is very potent

Sergei and Yulia Skripal’s poisoner delivered neurotoxin via air conditioning in victim’s car

The Scottish novelist on being a thorn in the literary establishment’s side

An extraordinary, powerful debut that looks at the aftermath of a rape

The Irish born academic and former US ambassador to the UN on how she became one of the most powerful women in American foreign affairs, her thoughts on the current president and how her roots are firmly in Ireland

The poet, who died 150 years ago this week, retains significant influence and allure

Many are cemented to old-fashioned mindsets on ageing, unable to respond to its new realities

Greece Letter: Various announcements about progress merely public charades

Banned priest: ‘It’s all falling apart so fast; it’s collapsing rapidly. Some say it’s too late’

Seán Flanagan is delighted and exhausted after two days of writing like a maniac

Relief as contemporary Irish poet appears but teacher queries range required

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

Michael Dervan: Two evenings of music and words as part of Ireland 2016 got me thinking about the links that were missed

An insider’s story of a devastating modern war told from the perspective of 45 objects

TS Eliot's will contained a severe sentence: he did not wish to have a biography of himself published. With that in mind he had contrived the destruction of his early letters to his parents.

Dylan Farrow’s open letter on a ‘New York Times’ blog last weekend, in which she claims that Woody Allen molested her when she was seven, implicates the movie fan as an apologist for this alleged sexual assault

Samuel L Clemens dictated hundreds of pages of autobiography that ranged from the nonexistence of God to postal-service vagaries

US poet Ezra Pound, celebrated at a conference at Trinity, had close links with Irish writers and politicians and became Joyce’s unpaid agent

When he was nine, the young writer composed and printed a poem about Charles Stewart Parnell of which only a fragment is recorded. For a rare-book dealer, it’s thrilling to think a copy might be waiting to be discovered. Could it be hidden somewhere in Ireland?

The latest huge volume of the poet’s correspondence deals mainly with his failing first marriage, the complexities of his Anglican faith and his editorship of the ‘Criterion’