‘My cheeks hurt because I can’t stop smiling’: Ruth Negga wins Independent Spirit Award
The Limerick star received the best supporting actress award for Passing
Olivia Colman: ‘Only stick with honest friends’
The Oscar winner on fame, privacy and preparing to play her darkest role yet
Venice Film Festival: Who will triumph as all eyes turn to the Golden Lion?
Reviews: Paul Mescal and Kristen Stewart among stars featuring in this year’s festival
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
EU should make Scotland ‘open offer’ of membership, letter urges
Colm Tóibín, Elena Ferrante and Sam Heughan among the 170-plus signatories
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
Kim Kardashian West at 40: How the queen of social media changed the world
Why is Kardashian West, who exchanged privacy for wealth, so famous?
The Lying Life of Adults: A flawed but gripping return
Book review: Elena Ferrante’s first novel since Neapolitan quartet masterfully evokes adolescence
Can’t wait to travel to Italy again? Take a virtual tour
Look forward to better times by trying la dolce vita at home with these films, cultural tours, documentaries and recipes
The rise of the virtual book club
Writer Brian Leyden on how his book club has moved to Zoom to survive the lockdown
Relive Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels on the city’s real world streets
If you're a fan of the books, you'll love discovering Lila and Lenu's haunts around the city
Fifty Shades, Kanye, Love/Hate: The films, TV, books and music that defined the decade
The Decade in Culture: The most impactful books, series and performers of 2010-19
100 books by women you have to read
Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
The next Elena Ferrante? The best European fiction coming your way
A devastating French debut, a controversial Norwegian saga ... the best new euronovels
Women of honour: The godmothers of the Italian mafia
A new book tells the true stories of the most notorious matriarchs in organised crime
Edouard Louis: ‘There were no books in my house. We hated them’
The 24-year-old French author didn't read until he was 17. But his incendiary portrait of his upbringing, among a routinely racist, sexist and homophobic French cohort of heavy drinkers, has become a publishing sensation
The Question: How much must readers know about authors?
The unmasking of Elena Ferrante undermines the relationship of readers and writers
Italian reporter ‘discovers’ identity of writer Elena Ferrante
Investigation criticised as invasion of privacy of both writer and Neapolitan Novels publisher
Who will win the European Capital of Culture?
As the judges arrive in Ireland, before making a decision on Friday, we look at the best bits from our European Capital of Culture proposals from Limerick, Galway and the Three Sisters
In search of Elena Ferrante’s Naples
The ungovernable city known as Gomorrah has experienced a ‘riscatto’ – redemption – thanks to the popularity of Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels
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