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Jim Kerr: ‘I’d been a rock star. I thought, What happened my life?
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Before Stonewall: Secret scrapbooks uncover how gay people were criminalised
Photographer and writer Carl Van Vechten documented queer experiences in the decades before the 1969 riots
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Obama’s secret to surviving White House: books
Not since Lincoln has there been a president so fundamentally shaped by reading and writing as Barack Obama
The man trying to reinvent the future of food with Soylent
Meal substitute entrepreneur Rob Rhinehart lives in a shipping container with no water
Van the Man looks back at 50-plus years of making music
Influenial, inscrutible Van Morrison gives his most comprehensive interview ever
Ulster football championship the saviour of the All-Ireland summer
Fiercely competitive province always produces compelling drama the locals savour
Donegal withstand late rally to hold off Cork
Captain Michael Murphy sees red as home side are almost pegged back
Death of former Evening Press journalist Seán McCann
Hailed by Con Houlihan as ‘a brilliant features editor’
Six terrible things you must do in college in your first year
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Eat your words
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Hubert Mingarelli bares his literary soul
The French author has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 for ‘A Meal in Winter’, an elegant meditation on the Holocaust
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