How a short speech by David Foster Wallace can help you through a bad day
Choosing how to react can be a very difficult, helpful and healthy exercise
Like it or not, Novak Djokovic is set to be the best men’s tennis player ever
Fans don’t warm to Serb like they did Nadal or Federer but the numbers can’t be denied
Brushing up on your high culture? Forgive my scepticism
The crisis has allowed people loudly signal rediscovered their commitment to highbrow classics
Jagged Little Pill isn’t the only sacred cow that deserves a kicking
Donald Clarke: A new print of A Clockwork Orange is on the way – get your boots on
The trouble with Ayn Rand and Zack Snyder’s ‘The Fountainhead’?
Reviled director to film reviled libertarian hero’s novel. This is a bad idea
Meet the bright young things of Irish writing
Young Irish fiction writers have made strides in recent years, and 2018 promises some fine debuts. Here six authors introduce their books
Jaylen Brown: ‘Sport is a mechanism of control in America’
Boston Celtics star talks about race barriers and how he played on after the death of his best friend
What future has the essay in a social media age?
Unthinkable: Despite today’s fashion for talking in tweets, there’s life in the old art form
The best films from this year’s Galway Film Fleadh
Michael Inside, Maze and Song of Granite are among the strong field of new Irish film
After the amputation: a powerful rendering of disability
Hopdance review: Stewart Parker’s posthumous memoir novel captures figments of a lost year
I hate emojis and Instagram breakfasts but not millennials
Take a position, old bores. How do you feel about people between 18 and 35?
Tipping Point: Sentimentalists hoping time and logic yield to Roger Federer
Veteran champion returns to happy hunting ground in search of an eight Wimbledon title
Unthinkable: Does reality depend on where you are standing?
Art theorist Francis Halsall explains the enduring appeal of phenomenology
The Minor Outsider by Ted McDermott review: absurdly impressive
Ted McDermott’s novel focuses on life’s contradictions and absurdities
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
Review: The David Foster Wallace Reader
The writing is easily good enough to deserve the Greatest Hits treatment and if the Reader encourages students to continue the conversation with Wallace’s work, then it will have done its job
Freshers’ week is messy but that’s okay – go with it
Have fun, make mistakes, don’t try to live up to dreams, accept change and learn when to say ‘no’
Brought to Book – Miriam Toews: ‘Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!’
‘I wanted to do a Masters degree in Irish literature but I ended up getting pregnant instead’
Brought to book: Chris Pavone
What writing trends have struck you lately? Pornography! I’m astounded at how many women want to read explicit descriptions of sex.
Blagging rights: a dummies’ guide to culture
Being in college means being in the know about all things music, art, film, food and politics, so here’s a cheatsheet to start you off
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