The world has put too many financial eggs in a country run by a basket case
Concentration of global risk in one country – the US – is a source of enormous jeopardy
Ernest Hemingway
Could France go bust? One of Europe’s biggest economies has pimped itself out to the world
The question haunting the EU: could France be a huge Greece at the heart of the bloc?
This summer I’m taking a Maga approach to reading: self-serving and isolationist
The art of re-reading - or rewatching - old favourites is a romantic pursuit
A Quiet Evening: The Travels of Norman Lewis – Five decades as wandering witness to the world
This collection, edited by John Hatt, brings together 36 of the English writer’s witty, observant travelogues
A critique of those who have opinions on everything but do very little about anything
You may find the following attitude strange from an ex-theatre critic
Lucy Caldwell: ‘It took me more than a decade of trying to write short stories before any of them worked. It was long and gruelling’
Award-winning author explains the process behind Openings, her new short story collection
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru - The men don’t come out of it all that well
Hollywood star Patricia Neal’s ‘career, independence and beauty were gone within a decade’ of marrying Roald Dahl
Where has the rock star male novelist gone?
The #MeToo movement has made men in literature more cautious
Giovanni Bellini: Father of the Renaissance, painter of translucid light
A new exhibition in Paris reveals the extraordinary originality and influence of Venetian artist
Tip2Top in Cabo Blanco: Hemingway once held court here, in all his degenerate glory. The rich still fly in to hook a prize marlin
The writer came to Cabo Blanco, where I stop on my journey up the Americas, as this Peruvian village was where much of The Old Man and the Sea was filmed
Drones, drugs and bullet-proof vests: life as a war courier in Ukraine
One Warsaw resident on the dangerous route he takes across the border with supplies
How a larger-than-life Kerry exile helped Muhammad Ali fight in Dublin
London publican Butty Sugrue, once dubbed ‘Ireland’s strongest man’, was force of nature
Ulysses for cheats, chapter by chapter (feel free to skip the first three)
Frank McNally: Skim, slice and dice James Joyce’s masterpiece, from opening to climax
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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