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International Booker Prize 2026 shortlist: women dominate list that ‘reverberates with history’
Novels transport readers from 1930s Japan-ruled Taiwan to Nazi-controlled Europe, from magic and domesticity in 1990s France to the Iranian Revolution in 1979
Céline Dion reveals return to stage with 10 concerts in Paris
Concerts will be Céline Dion’s first full-length shows in almost six years after stiff person syndrome diagnosis
Michelle Pfeiffer: The movie queen reinventing herself as a small-screen star
At 67, the US actor is busier than ever, a movie queen lately reinvented as a small-screen star
The Visit by Neil Tully: Lyrical debut novel asks what happens to those left behind
A once insular Wexford community casts its gaze outwards as it prepares to welcome JFK
Babies on BBC One: Siobhán Cullen is quietly searing in beautifully made show suffused with dread
Television: Series is to be applauded for sensitively addressing the anguish of being unable to have a child and the related pain of miscarriage
Siobhán Cullen on Babies: ‘It’s crazy to me that I had come this far without knowing so much’
Stefan Golaszewski’s BBC series starring Cullen and Paapa Essiedu gives screen time to some of the most soul-wrenching experiences imaginable
DJ Scott Mills sacked by BBC over ‘personal conduct’ allegations
Scott Mills took over the Radio 2 Breakfast Show from Zoe Ball last year
Sallins Inquiry Now review: Christy Moore and Damien Dempsey put fire into benefit gig’s call for investigation
The musician Cormac Breatnach unites artists in renewed call for State apology and inquiry into wrongful conviction of his brother Osgur, Nick Kelly and Brian McNally
Tuesdays with Morrie review: An enthralling production of Mitch Albom’s enduring memoir
Theatre: David Hayman and Fionn Foley play the dying sociology professor and his former student in this warm, funny, sad and relatable story
The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín: Stories by a writer with complete command of the craft
New short story collection ranges over territories familiar to Tóibín’s readers: Wexford, Catalonia, Argentina and the US
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: What did Mario do to offend Bob Hoskins? Plus nine other key questions about the film’s star
By 1990, Nintendo’s dungaree-wearing plumber was already bigger than Mickey Mouse. Even Salman Rushdie was a fan
‘It was as if Louis Stewart and James Joyce were kindred spirits’
JoyceNotes was the great Irish guitarist’s only fully self-composed large-scale project. It’s finally being released, four decades after its first performance
TV guide: The best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 28th-April 3rd highlights, including Grace, Race Across the World, and Your Friends & Neighbors
Fiction in translation: City Like Water; Women Without Men; X is Where I Am; You Are the Fuhrer’s Unrequited Love
A nightmarish cityscape that is identifiably Hong Kong; a classic of oppression in Iran; a celebration of queer lives; and a stark exploration of Albert Speer
