There are times when we start to consider the possible futures we have closed off

Conspiracies take up time and energy that are almost always better spent pursuing the organisation’s loftier ambitions.

Sarah Perry discusses faith, writing, gender and illness as more than a metaphor

Cocozza’s debut novel ‘How to be Human’ explores wilderness and isolation in the city

For the Irish, silence is a way of dealing with, and surviving, traumatic exile

Flashes of brilliant writing are weighed down by the plot in ‘Miniaturist’ author’s new novel

One can’t help feeling that a letter signed by the cast of Geordie Shore might have had more effect than Cumberbatch and Elba's attempts

I’m not sure we learn anything from the arts – except that we need them more than ever

Year in review: From ‘Red Rock’ to Aidan Turner’s biceps in ‘Poldark’ and Don Draper’s final ad campaign in ‘Mad Men’, TV delivered the goods in 2015

Happy Birthday copyright, the ‘diesel dupe’ and the Goldman Sachs reading list

Baby’s status as fourth in line to the British throne should give her an extra 11 years on her peers

Bishops object to TV drama’s take on More as a fanatical Protestant burner of heretics

The BBC’s Tudor drama is literate and atmospheric; an Irish documentary on being gay is quietly powerful when it stays on home ground; and the last word on RTÉ’s ‘Charlie’

Karl Miller: August 2nd, 1931 - September 24th, 2014

Hilary Mantel’s short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher caused outrage with its recent publication in the Guardian, but it’s not the first and won’t be last piece of fiction to raise hackles

Elizabeth Gilbert is infinitely proud of her bestselling memoir – but she says that her new novel, ‘The Signature of All Things’, is her best work yet

Donal Ryan, Colm Tóibín and David Park nominated for prestigious literary prize

Thirteen books in the running for prestigious literary prize