A utopian future for the planet: How ‘human solidarity’ can see us through
Sci-fi stories feel irrelevant to writer Kim Stanley Robinson now as his focus shifts to climate change
Stephen King’s prolific writing will leave future generations grateful
Donald Clarke: Problem is not with the writer but with the smallness of the critics’ minds
Book quiz: ‘A plague on both your houses’ is from which Shakespeare play?
Welcome to The Irish Times book quiz: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge
Frank McNally dissects the political parties’ manifestos ahead of the General Election
Documents are littered with ‘roadmaps’, ‘kick-starts’ and ‘roll-outs’, not to mention terrifying ‘night mayors’
The Alternative review: Sly thought experiment which unpicks threads of history
Dublin Theatre Festival: In Fishamble’s new production, all of Ireland remains in the UK and now faces a referendum on whether to stay
Worldcon mad: a collision between science fiction and Flann O’Brien
Important principles from the catechism of cliché and a parallel development
It is rare to hear anybody arguing for the inherent inferiority of popular fiction
Tóibín’s error when discussing the prose in genre fiction was to move from ‘I just get bored’ to ‘it’s blank, it’s nothing’
Time loop: The plot device that comes back again and again and again
Groundhog Day is considered the best example, but it wasn’t the first – or the last
Ólafur Arnalds: how hardcore punk drove his electronic dreams
Icelandic pianist used customised software to create new album `re:member'
A day in the library: ‘This is a safe space for people’
In other countries libraries may be under threat but there’s a queue every morning outside Dublin’s Central Library
Mission Impossible: What is Tom Cruise’s best movie?
Tom Cruise’s 16 best films over a career that has stretched over 30 years
A shortcut to immortality: kill the president
With Steven Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opening at the Gate, what drives the perpetrators. from Booth to Oswald to Hinckley?
Blade Runner was about climate change, claustrophobia and melancholia
Can Denis Villeneuve’s 163-minute sequel to Blade Runner rescue a ‘broken’ box office?
Blade Runner 2049: intoxicating, brain-melting alienation
Review: Blade Runner 2049 is not without flaws, but it’s a marvel it works as well as it does
What happens to falsely imprisoned people after they are released?
Freedom sometimes comes without liberation in new documentary ‘Fallout’
‘Electric Dreams’ tells us to trust the robots, not the humans
TV review: Another Philip K Dick adaptation, in this boom time for paranoia
'Dr Eccles claims he treats four people a week with avocado-related wounds'
Avocado Hand: An epidemic that afflicts incompetent slicers of trendy fruits is to be welcomed
An Irishman’s Diary about bad grammar and Heisenberg
Uncertainty principle gave rise to ‘many worlds’ theory which may excuse BBC commentators
Will the new festival from Glastonbury organisers be all that Bazaar?
It looks like Glasto is heading for a hiatus in 2019 and this week it announced its Variety Bazaar. But fans aren’t happy, and organiser Michael Eavis is openly worried “this might be one risk too far”
Big Brother’s Jedward represent a new stage in celebrity evolution
As they make a mockery of the other contestants in the Big Brother house, I find my heart swelling with national pride
The Man in the High Castle is just the thing for your boxset-binge cravings
Amazon Prime’s fascist-America drama may not capture the zeitgeist perfectly, but it’s not far off
Ten things we learned at the Theatre of Change Symposium
Tackling malevolent cupcakes, mutant lesbians and “the man problem” at the Abbey
Amazon pulls ads for Nazi-themed TV show from NY subway
Show depicts alternate reality where Germany, Japan control US after winning WW2
Visual Art: Why Gretchen Bender’s work is ripe for revival
The late American media artist was ahead of her time, but her reputation is now catching up with her powerful work; and Mayo artists respond to their home county
So you don’t understand the Internet of Things? Don’t worry, you soon will
Smart pills, driverless cars and fridges that know what you need to stock up on: everything is about to become connected in what some are calling the greatest upheaval since the industrial revolution
Innovation Talk: ‘Killer robot’ headlines mask workers’ anxiety about jobs
Perhaps more than any other technology, robotisation and automation threaten to reshape society, and we better have some ideas as to how we will adapt to that changed landscape
The long road from Tyrone to Texas for Richard Linklater’s right-hand man
He toured with Pearl Jam, and fired up Friday Night Lights, but cinematographer Shane Kelly’s best work is probably found in Boyhood
Bad lands: Fahrenheit 451 and other fiery dystopias
Ray Bradbury’s great dystopian vision is 60. Thankfully the book-burning world it depicts has not yet come to pass, so we can still read it and other dark visions
Galway Film Fleadh: keeping the flag flying for Irish cinema
The festival, in its 25th year, continued to showcase new home-grown features, from mainstream-friendly recession comedy ‘Life’s a Breeze’ to the off-centre ‘Out of Here’
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