Great White Fail – Frank McNally on typos, confusing homophones, and the real-life horror that inspired Moby-Dick

An Irishman’s Diary

Beware of the rush to get back to normal business amid Covid-19

Epic novel Moby Dick offers us a lesson in dealing with the coronavirus maelstrom

James Gray: 'I went back to the US and got told I was nothing'

The director’s on working with Brad Pitt on Ad Astra, being ignored in America and making movies in Northern Ireland

Hyphenation Once Again – Frank McNally on a controversial punctuation mark

Great White Fail – Frank McNally on going where few book-lovers have gone before and reading all of Moby Dick

Married to Gene Kelly: 'He didn't seem that old to me'

Film star's widow on curating her husband's archive, and the 47-year age gap

High-brow Yale tours and low-brow fun in beautiful Connecticut

Even my American friends were baffled. ‘What’s there?’ they all asked. A lot, it turns out

Ismael’s Ghosts: Marion Cotillard turns up, and things get messy

Review: The wife who went missing 20 years ago reappears and introduces herself to her husband’s new squeeze

Claire Denis: ‘We are normal people. Even though we are French’

The distinguished film-maker continues her experiments in the unpredictable with her latest work – just don’t go asking what it’s like being a female director

Karl Ove Knausgaard: ‘I’m not f**king around. This is hardcore’

Bestselling Norwegian novelist insists he is not a good writer. He has been corrupted by pleasing people, he says

A remote part of Norway where life is kept frozen

Artist Michael John Whelan is continuously drawn to the world’s most northerly settlement of more than 1,000 people

Moby: The secret of success? 'Don’t have a fallback plan'

Moby’s new memoir is less about showbiz and more about clawing hs way out of poverty in the late 1980s

New film sparks memories of ‘Moby Dick’ in Youghal

Residents recall having a whale of a time when Hollywood legends arrived in 1954

An A-Z of stories of the sea, from Conrad to Cervantes, Defoe to Patrick O’Brian

Norman Freeman got a taste for maritime yarns studying for his radio officer’s certificate in Kevin Street. As his own book comes out, he explores the classics of the tradition