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Edel Coffey: Where have all the smart romcoms gone?
They’re dismissed as saccharine, but the really good ones can give you a sugar-free lift
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Roddy Doyle, Sarah Crossan and Shane Hegarty on the role songs play in their craft
How do I love thee? With precious pieces that will long outlast the roses
Specimen table from home of Ada King or unique sculpture of a socially-distant hug
Superb pieces demonstrating Gabriel García Márquez’s first love
Brief reviews of The Scandal of the Century, Rave, and a new translation of King Kong Theory
Pandemic drives millions from Latin America’s universities
Sharp fall in enrolment a big step back for region struggling to build knowledge-based economy
Bananas might hold the key to post-Covid trade
How the banana adapts now could be crucial to understanding the post-pandemic era of trade
Barn 8: dazzling depiction of contemporary carnage
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The Irish Times view on literature in a time of crisis: If we winter this one out...
At this time of social isolation, books offer not just consolation but a portal to the most profound human connection
Coronavirus: France turns to literature amid the despair of pandemic
Paris Letter: The French are finding relevance in books about epidemics and confinement
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Dublin Fringe Festival: The charmingly offbeat adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez brings magic realism to all ages
José Salas Subirat, the eccentric first translator of Joyce’s Ulysses into Spanish
The insurance salesman could not speak English, only read it, and plans for a revised edition sank in a plane crash
She Would Be King: Sarah Jessica Parker and the New York Times love this book. I don’t
Book review: Wayétu Moore's imaginative debut gets lost in plodding prose
The Clothesline Swing review: Striking account of growing up gay in Syria
Ahmad Danny Ramadan’s uneven debut novel reflects troubles of a beleaguered minority
'There was a feeling in the unionist community that it was they who made most of the sacrifices'
Jan Carson on identity, Northern Ireland and her new novel, The Fire Starters
Hugh McIlvanney obituary: ‘The best sportswriter of his era’
A pre-eminent sports journalist who strove for perfection and was dedicated to the facts
Colombia’s armed forces rescue relative of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Melissa Martinez Garcia (34) was seized in August for ransom by group of armed men
Imposter syndrome: A fraudulent feeling that’s no respecter of rank
Fear of being found out is the big grey elephant in the room for many managers
Irish in Argentina: Not always a successful diaspora story
Conventional success story hides atrocities and suffering of ordinary Irish-Argentines
Pope urges Colombia to stick to peace path, shun vengeance
Pope’s remarks come as country prepares to receive 7,000 ex-Farc fighters into society
Olwen Fouéré on the price that revolutionaries pay
The actor’s role in ‘Danse, Morob’, a play that touches on the dirty protests of the Maze and other traumas, explores how revolution can break those whom others see as heroes
Work Like Any Other review: Plenty of work, not much play
Virginia Reeves’s Man Booker-longlisted debut is eloquently written but on the dull side
Fidel Castro: tragedy of a revolution that turned sour
The late leader brought great social advances to Cuba, but with these came repression
Prize of peace still eludes Colombia despite Nobel award
Nobel Peace Prize comes just days after country voted against Farc peace deal
The original Jaws resurfaces in Sligo
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the auction house . . . A first edition of Jaws and a drawing by its author are snapped up
First edition of banned Lady Chatterley’s Lover goes on sale today
How a retired book-collecting Sligo GP managed to get a copy of DH Lawrence’s banned book while still at school
Colombia and Farc rebels sign historic ceasefire
The deal brings peace tantalisingly close after more than 50 years of conflict
Treasure-laden ship’s discovery sparks three-way legal battle
‘San Jose’ wreck, with up to $17bn in cargo, claimed by Colombia, Spain and salvage firm
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel Q&A: ‘I wrote one of my first novels sitting up a tree’
Author from Equatorial Guinea on what he reads and how he writes
Review: I’m Not Here to Give a Speech, by Gabriel García Márquez
This collection of speeches offers marvels of infectious charm and humanity, of a piece with the fiction, and equally haunting
A tough brief: selecting the first Laureate for Irish Fiction
Passionate, relentlessly energetic and possessing a collegial focus: ahead of the announcement of the inaugural laureate in The Irish Times, the selection panel discuss what they are looking for
Ebooks: Can’t decide what to read? Let somebody else choose for you
There is something pleasingly arbitrary about the subscription approach to literature in translation
Ben Okri: ‘We are poised on the edge of a crisis’
Nigeria, with its tradition of exuberant storytelling, is central to the writer’s identity. He’s alarmed by the Boko Haram abductions there – part of a series of events that could, he says, trigger something terrible
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