Following the release of his latest novel, The Proof of My Innocence, the author discusses his ‘stylistic homecoming’, the evolution of Liz Truss and why he’s spending more time with his ‘imaginary friends’
Television: The author and playwright, who suffered life-changing injuries after a fall in 2022, revisits his life and career
It is incredibly easy for people to detect when they are at a nadir – the trenches of their career or stardom. But it seems a much harder task to identify when you are at your peak
Novelist explains why he chose not to talk to his would-be murderer, and what he discovered about himself when fatwa was issued against him
After largely ecstatic reviews in the English-speaking world, German critics and audiences have been more ambivalent about Jonathan Glazer’s film, which is is up for five Oscars
The American novelist and short story writer on idiosyncratic book titles, her preoccupation with grief, and Donald Trump’s refusal to go away
There is no consistent evidence that older workers are any less productive than their younger counterparts
His loss will be felt keenly at a time when Anglophone literature is mired in a charmless and po-faced moral earnestness
The culture wars are not a diversion - they are the language, the style, of politics. One does not exist in a separate realm to the other
It turns out that I don’t want anyone else’s take. I want Amis’s own report. I want another Amisian dispatch from the front lines of experience
Writer, known for titles such as Money and London Fields, died of cancer of the oesophagus, says wife
A new documentary puts the dictator’s lasting and insidious influence under the microscope
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
Mary Minihan recalls the challenges and thrills of her student days in England
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
Just as Newton experimented with light during the Black Death, I could experiment with the grooming habits of the Iron Age
There is a long history of actors deriding poorly received work, with Cats star Rebel Wilson being the latest
Donald Clarke: Guilt is an important aspect of life and a vital part of the reading experience
As literature’s oldest enfant terrible turns 70, John Self, who took his pen name from an Amis character, revisits the collected works
The growth of spoken-word festivals reflects our hunger for real-life experiences
Donald Clarke: The act of appreciation is just a refined version of what audiences do every day
Dublin International Film Festival: Stephen Merchant in town for winning wrestling comedy, ‘Fighting With My Family’
Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature
Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more
‘On Chesil Beach is about a young, sexually inexperienced couple on a miserable honeymoon
The actor says ‘pornographic’ scenes were filmed after she left the ‘London Fields’ set
Post is latest academic appointment for three-time Booker nominated author
Between World Cup and Euros, France has experienced 18 years of disconnection
Impressive show for German language writers with 11 titles among 160 nominated
‘There is nothing in the novel more harrowing than what people read in their newspaper’
‘Brought to Book’ Q&A: Australian author of Coal Creek and The Ancestor Game on the books that have inspired him
Alain de Botton explains the thinking that prompted him to marshal leading writers into closed organisations
Karl Miller: August 2nd, 1931 - September 24th, 2014
Martin Amis is a deeply moral writer with a Swiftian vigour. In his latest novel, ‘The Zone of Interest’, he returns to the story of the Nazi death camps
What to check out at the book festival this weekend in Dún Laoghaire
With the sixth Mountains to Sea almost underway, this year’s curator looks at the rise of the book festival
Review: A brave, humane novel, set in a concentration camp, takes a hard look the attrocities of the second World War
No editor has time to look at a novel twice. Leading editors offer advice to help writers make the most of their one shot
Candour and honesty define the life and work of Edmund White, the prolific American novelist with a genius for expressing the agonies of human sexuality
‘I’m grateful to the authors of shorter books, because my concentration is shot from the internet and all the coffee’
Ahead of an appearance at the Galway Film Centre, Jimmy McGovern, writer of TV dramas Cracker, Hillsborough and Sunday, is frank about being a ‘troublesome leftie’, meeting Martin McGuinness and bad writing
An online campaign wants to get readers to seek out women authors, whether new, overlooked or forgotten
An attempt to organise my books brought me back to iodine tablets and youthful travel fantasies
A wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history of Paris
Sally Vincent - Born: April 22nd, 1937; Died: December 26th, 2013
In his revealing new documentary ‘Utopia’, distinguished journalist John Pilger paints a bleak picture of life for the aboriginal people of his native Australia
Trinity College Dublin seemed to have an especially fine array of eccentrics in the 1980s, making first year even odder for a convent girl from the west. This article features in a new book about the university in that decade
Obituary: Elmore Leonard 1925-2013
The American writer’s psychotherapist son has written a perceptive, honest – and angry – book about life with a literary giant
The Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas had many big names and big ideas but the true star was the big house itself
British novelist was in Co Carlow for an interview with journalist Sinéad Gleeson
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
