Maureen Dowd: Washington DC and James Joyce? Both incomprehensible
I bought a copy of Ulysses in Dublin long ago but had never mustered will to read it
War of the Worlds: Grouchy Gabriel Byrne and creepy Daisy Edgar Jones get under your skin
TV review: This interpretation of HG Wells’s work is dour and slow, but full of mystery
Final sales of the season leave auction buyers spoiled for choice
Signed copies of Joyce’s Ulysses and Wilde’s Poems, and works by Paul Henry to feature
A vaccine strategy inspired by the movie ‘Contagion’? Not Britain’s worst idea
Films, books and television often get the future right, writes Hugh Linehan
Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘75? What on earth makes you think I’m 75?’
‘They’re using the vaccine to force people to say they’re over 70 when they’d pass for 50’
What You Could Have Won: plenty to applaud but easy to get lost
Genn is to be commended for choosing two such unlikable leads for her novel about a celebrity singer's toxic relationships
Royal flush: Frank McNally plumbs the depths of Ascot, Bloomsday and GBS
Irish writers have done more to promote Royal Ascot, surely, than English writers ever did
Book quiz: ‘A plague on both your houses’ is from which Shakespeare play?
Welcome to The Irish Times book quiz: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge
Racing to a standstill: Mike Prendergast on life under lockdown in Paris
‘There are helicopters and drones going around so people are staying in’
Have yourself a very vintage Christmas: antique gifts for all
The most sustainable choice of all could also be a good investment
Patrick Freyne: The Crown is about a rich family who stay still
British have little conception of their own history beyond a few overly-fetishised events
Haloed Fellow Well Met – Frank McNally on GK Chesterton’s claims to sainthood
An Irishman’s Diary on the English novelist who was a ‘friendly enemy’ to Shaw
Ferdinand review: A children’s classic gets the family-film treatment
Carlos Saldanha embellishes ‘The Story of Ferdinand’ with tried-and-tested subplots
Harry McGee: Political culture appears at odds with progress
Fleeting ministerial tenures point to short-termism inimical to change
‘I’m trying to make these huge questions more tangible and more personal’
Thanks to synaesthesia Lucy McKenna experiences the world differently to most people, and now, following a stint at Cern, she’s trying to explain huge questions in science with art
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child review: adult angst and a magical, theatrical coup
A convoluted plot that Potter-philes will love gets a thrilling, magical staging
Miriam Lord: Lacklustre Burton fails even to attract protesters
Heavy security but no hint of the ‘forest of placards’ predicted by Gilmore five years ago
Lorca executed by Francoists at start of civil war
Poet was killed in 1936 on orders of troops loyal to Franco, police papers confirm
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
Bad lands: Fahrenheit 451 and other fiery dystopias
Ray Bradbury’s great dystopian vision is 60. Thankfully the book-burning world it depicts has not yet come to pass, so we can still read it and other dark visions
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