Is silence golden? When writers choose to stop
Novelist Julian Barnes’s retirement highlights how rare it is for a writer to choose to fall silent
Salman Rushdie
The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie: A new collection rich with pathos and reflection
The warmth with which Rushdie’s revisits the landscapes of his life results in humour and genuine sadness
‘Fame is a kind of hell. I have seen the dark side of this culture’
The Booker Prize-winning novelist Kiran Desai on emigration, her new novel and disappearing into her fiction
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai: A novel of tremendous scope and richness
Desai returns to the most radical ambition of novels: making the complexity of other lives shareable
Seán Rocks: Ireland has lost one of its great cultural champions
Late broadcaster’s easy wit and big-hearted spirit belied a lifelong devotion to our rich culture
How Substack is upending media: ‘It is seriously challenging the old-guard message that people won’t pay for writing’
Big-name writers Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Paul Krugman and Tina Brown have flocked to the platform
Man sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempted murder of author Salman Rushdie
Hadi Matar stabbed author 15 times at 2022 literary gathering in New York, causing severe injuries to his right eye, liver and intestines
Man who attacked author Salman Rushdie found guilty of attempted murder
Attack occurred more than 30 years after Rushdie was first placed under ‘fatwa’ by Iranian religious leaders
Novelist Salman Rushdie takes stand in trial of his accused attacker
Author, who was stabbed about 15 times, shows jury his injured eye
This is a good time to recognise all that Salman Rushdie sacrificed for free speech
The conflict between the right to individual speech versus the need to accommodate the sensibilities of so-called marginalised groups became a perennial theme of the 2010s
Ireland was offered secret meeting with Iranian president over Brian Keenan hostage situation
Belfast man kidnapped by Islamic Jihad in 1986 in Beirut during Lebanese civil war
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
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
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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