In My Own Words: Hanif Kureishi review – Author revisits hedonistic life after entering a zone of death
Television: The author and playwright, who suffered life-changing injuries after a fall in 2022, revisits his life and career
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Local history: Cartoonish cruelty betrays a fundamentalist who would not cotton on
The Reverend Psychopath: Suffer Little Children, Terror, Tears and Tragedy: The Mount Cashells and the Notorious Divorce Case of 1876, and Under the Metal Man: Sligo in Yeats
Brendan O’Connor brings his contrary streak to a cosy conversation about immigration
Radio: Even at his most factually minded, the RTÉ presenter can’t resist his mischievous side
Salman Rushdie: ‘The first thing that comes into my mind each morning is: I don’t have my right eye’
Novelist explains why he chose not to talk to his would-be murderer, and what he discovered about himself when fatwa was issued against him
Knife by Salman Rushdie review: living to tell the tale of being saved by love
Knife is surprisingly upbeat for a book about being stabbed in the head
Retroland: A Reader’s Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction – A critical machete wielded mercilessly
Salman Rushdie, Hilary Mantel, John Banville and Roddy Doyle might wince at some of the judgments contained within
Martin Amis obituary: A writer who combined moral seriousness with mordant wit
His loss will be felt keenly at a time when Anglophone literature is mired in a charmless and po-faced moral earnestness
Where has the rock star male novelist gone?
The #MeToo movement has made men in literature more cautious
One Small Voice: Engaging debut novel offers sharp, human insights into India
Santanu Bhattacharya writes with verve, intelligence and compassion with a range of characters crossing religion, caste and class
Victory City review: This isn’t Salman Rushdie’s best book. But it is chilling in the light of his stabbing
Salman Rushdie’s 15th novel, about an eternally youthful femme fatale fighting religious fundamentalism, sticks to the author’s fiction formula
Salman Rushdie, blind in one eye after being stabbed on stage, says he feels lucky and grateful
In his first interview since being attacked at New York literary event, the author reflects on the support he received from first responders
Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and use of one hand, agent says
Author was stabbed in neck and torso on stage in New York state last August
‘Would you like to visit my grave?’ The farmer planning a home burial
Martin Neary has permission to be buried on his own lands in Co Mayo when he dies
‘Cheaper than a divorce’: Four writers on carving out space at home for their work
Having a ‘room of one’s own’ can help writers get the right work from home balance - but not always
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
House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
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?
Nick Cave criticises cancel culture as ‘bad religion run amuck’
Political correctness has ‘asphyxiating effect on the creative soul of a society’, musician says
150m Shades of Grey: How the bestsellers changed our sex lives
EL James’s books triggered an erotica boom. They have also been cited in sex-crime cases
Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are joint winners
Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood
‘I believed it’: John Banville was told he won 2019 Nobel Prize in hoax call
Author says he was phoned by Swedish Academy number shortly before announcement
Peter Handke’s controversial Nobel prize win causes outrage
Writers including Salman Rushdie criticise the 2019 Nobel laureate over support for ‘genocidal regime of Slobodan Miloševic’
There’s no place like home: The Wizard of Oz, 80 years on
We all have our own Oz, be it fame, money or love. For immigrant families like mine, it is usually an actual place
‘After sex on the damp sheets, we passed out’: Lowlights from Moby’s memoir
Natalie Portman has disputed the musician’s account of their ‘relationship’. But fear not: his new book has plenty more steamy stories
Europe ‘coming apart before our eyes’, say 30 writers, historians and nobel laureates
Despite its ‘mistakes, lapses, and occasional acts of cowardice’, Europe remains ‘the second home of every free man and woman’
From Notre Dame to Haji Ali Dargah Mosque, a parade of holy places in fiction
Since Chaucer there has been a rich tradition of writers inspired by religious buildings
Ian McEwan: adapting books for movies is ‘technically challenging’
‘On Chesil Beach is about a young, sexually inexperienced couple on a miserable honeymoon
Sean Penn’s debut novel – repellent and stupid
The Oscar-winning actor’s foray into fiction, with Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, has met derision online. Can it be that bad?
How Ruth Fitzmaurice found her tribe in Ladies Cove, Greystones
Fitzmaurice's memoir 'I Found My Tribe' is a joyful and raw account of life after her husband’s MND diagnosis
Sharon Horgan: My friend Carrie Fisher, ‘actress, mother, daughter, lunatic, legend’
Fisher’s final acting role was in Horgan’s TV show, ‘Catastrophe’. The night before the Hollywood legend returned to LA, they went for dinner. Here, Horgan recalls that evening, and their friendship
Kathy Sheridan: The appalling decline in the quality of public insults
We all have the right to offend but not a licence to be coarse and vulgar
Saudi sheikh pays the price for standing up to religious police
Many in Saudi Arabia privately agree with cleric who questions tenets of Wahhabism
Richard Pine: Refugee crisis is Greek tragedy and EU’s shame
There has been a breakdown of European ethics in favour of bourgeois security
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