Dublin Film Critics Circle awards 2024: The Zone of Interest and Kneecap big winners
Critics also favoured Ralph Fiennes in Conclave and Mikey Madison in Palme d’Or-winning Anora
Martin Amis
Jonathan Coe: ‘The morning after the election felt like waking up in a safe room, having been in an abusive relationship for 14 years’
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’
In My Own Words: Hanif Kureishi review – Author revisits hedonistic life after entering a zone of death
Television: The author and playwright, who suffered life-changing injuries after a fall in 2022, revisits his life and career
Knowing when to quit is a truly inhuman quality. Just ask Joe Biden or Andy Murray
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
Salman Rushdie: ‘The first thing that comes into my mind each morning is: I don’t have my right eye’
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
‘It is dishonest’: Germany divided over Oscar-nominated Auschwitz film The Zone of Interest
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
Lorrie Moore: ‘Some people fear that if you have funny things, you’re not being serious. But of course funny things are very serious’
The American novelist and short story writer on idiosyncratic book titles, her preoccupation with grief, and Donald Trump’s refusal to go away
Pilita Clark: What we get wrong about ageing and work
There is no consistent evidence that older workers are any less productive than their younger counterparts
Martin Amis obituary: A writer who combined moral seriousness with mordant wit
His loss will be felt keenly at a time when Anglophone literature is mired in a charmless and po-faced moral earnestness
Finn McRedmond: What Martin Amis teaches us about our politics
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
The strangest thing about Martin Amis’s death is that Martin Amis isn’t around to write about it
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
Martin Amis, era-defining British novelist, dies aged 73
Writer, known for titles such as Money and London Fields, died of cancer of the oesophagus, says wife
The Meaning of Hitler: Why are we so fascinated with Nazism?
A new documentary puts the dictator’s lasting and insidious influence under the microscope
Salman Rushdie: ‘I am stupidly optimistic – it got me through those bad years’
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
A Derry Girl in Oxford: ‘The Troubles followed us over the Irish Sea’
Mary Minihan recalls the challenges and thrills of her student days in England
From Saoirse Ronan’s Ammonite to Spielberg’s West Side Story, 50 films to watch in 2021 (we hope)
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a traffic jam of anticipated films for this year
I chose to grow a beard for the first time, with distressing results
Just as Newton experimented with light during the Black Death, I could experiment with the grooming habits of the Iron Age
Why are actors quick to blame everyone else for bad films?
There is a long history of actors deriding poorly received work, with Cats star Rebel Wilson being the latest
Yes, you should feel bad for not finishing (insert classic novel here)
Donald Clarke: Guilt is an important aspect of life and a vital part of the reading experience
Martin Amis: all 14 novels ranked
As literature’s oldest enfant terrible turns 70, John Self, who took his pen name from an Amis character, revisits the collected works
Words made flesh: Why author events are the new hot tickets
The growth of spoken-word festivals reflects our hunger for real-life experiences
Artists get upset over a bad review? Give me a break
Donald Clarke: The act of appreciation is just a refined version of what audiences do every day
Bo Burnham takes to red carpet for Irish premiere of ‘Eighth Grade’
Dublin International Film Festival: Stephen Merchant in town for winning wrestling comedy, ‘Fighting With My Family’
Neck trouble, philosophy and defiance: A literary guide to middle age
Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature
The best of Eileen Battersby, from Tolstoy to Paul Simon
Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more
Ian McEwan: adapting books for movies is ‘technically challenging’
‘On Chesil Beach is about a young, sexually inexperienced couple on a miserable honeymoon
Amber Heard sues film-makers over body-double sex scenes
The actor says ‘pornographic’ scenes were filmed after she left the ‘London Fields’ set
Colm Tóibín appointed chancellor of Liverpool University
Post is latest academic appointment for three-time Booker nominated author
Michael Walker: France ’98 was not a beacon of hope. It was merely a football tournament
Between World Cup and Euros, France has experienced 18 years of disconnection
International Dublin Literary Award longlist announced
Impressive show for German language writers with 11 titles among 160 nominated
Q&A with Frank Golden on his new novel The Night Game
‘There is nothing in the novel more harrowing than what people read in their newspaper’
Alex Miller: ‘Simple prose is valued more now than a decade ago’
‘Brought to Book’ Q&A: Australian author of Coal Creek and The Ancestor Game on the books that have inspired him
Alain de Botton and Douglas Coupland: 21st-century industrial espionage
Alain de Botton explains the thinking that prompted him to marshal leading writers into closed organisations
Greatest British literary editor of his generation
Karl Miller: August 2nd, 1931 - September 24th, 2014
Martin Amis: ‘How can one claim to be human without looking at what we have done?’
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
Mountains to Sea DLR Book Festival: Our pick of the best
What to check out at the book festival this weekend in Dún Laoghaire
Blinking into the sunlight, years after the war is over
With the sixth Mountains to Sea almost underway, this year’s curator looks at the rise of the book festival
Unsettling, audacious Martin Amis: The Zone of Interest
Review: A brave, humane novel, set in a concentration camp, takes a hard look the attrocities of the second World War
Kill your darlings: the importance of editing
No editor has time to look at a novel twice. Leading editors offer advice to help writers make the most of their one shot
White truths: why novelist Edmund White believes love is worth dying for
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
Brought to Book: Rob Doyle on Keith Talent, Nietzsche’s morals and stone-cold classics
‘I’m grateful to the authors of shorter books, because my concentration is shot from the internet and all the coffee’
Jimmy McGovern: ‘We should be in a golden age of drama but we’re not’
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
Making this the year of reading women
An online campaign wants to get readers to seek out women authors, whether new, overlooked or forgotten
I would have eaten the budgerigar to see Tahiti
An attempt to organise my books brought me back to iodine tablets and youthful travel fantasies
Account of a not so young man in Paris
A wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history of Paris
Journalist of great talent, toughness and glamour
Sally Vincent - Born: April 22nd, 1937; Died: December 26th, 2013
John Pilger on breaking the Great Silence of Australia’s past
In his revealing new documentary ‘Utopia’, distinguished journalist John Pilger paints a bleak picture of life for the aboriginal people of his native Australia
Libraries, lectures and drunkenness
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
Acclaimed writer of distinctly tough crime novels who gained recognition late in life
Obituary: Elmore Leonard 1925-2013
Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir, by Greg Bellow
The American writer’s psychotherapist son has written a perceptive, honest – and angry – book about life with a literary giant
Gynocrats, Pimm’s, war and PJ Harvey: the Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas
The Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas had many big names and big ideas but the true star was the big house itself
Martin Amis tells Borris House festival audience he wants women to ‘rule the world’
British novelist was in Co Carlow for an interview with journalist Sinéad Gleeson
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