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Truman Capote
Articles about writer Truman Capote
That Summer: How the walls fell in on the Hamptons
Review: Documentary about how a patrician family descended into genteel squalor
‘Bonfire of the Vanities’ author Tom Wolfe dies aged 88
Writer dies in Manhattan hospital after infection, his agent Lynn Nesbit confirms
John Banville: Novels were never the same after Henry James
James invented the ‘psychological novel’ in The Portrait of a Lady. How could I not follow the fortunes of its heroine?
Will the new festival from Glastonbury organisers be all that Bazaar?
It looks like Glasto is heading for a hiatus in 2019 and this week it announced its Variety Bazaar. But fans aren’t happy, and organiser Michael Eavis is openly worried “this might be one risk too far”
Making a Murderer: Documentaries working for justice
Dassey’s overturned conviction is third time in 18 months a TV show or podcast altered course of case
Una Mullally: Why women have risen to the top in 1916 lore
‘In a country with a lot of barrier-breaking to be done for women, a female narrative is a welcome one’
Una Mullally: What ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ has taught us
Author Harper Lee’s death is sad but her first novel has life lessons for us all
Harper Lee: A brave writer who told the truth about racism
‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ author was a feisty storyteller with a powerful message
Harper Lee obituary: ‘Mockingbird’ author remained an enigma
After success of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee retreated from public view
Harper Lee review: A pretty decent effort and not much more
Eileen Battersby’s verdict on author’s much anticipated Go Set a Watchman
Behind the scenes at Iowa’s cultural cold war weapon
Iowa deserves a more prominent place on the US cultural map thanks to two programmes for writers that ignore borders and backgrounds and help make impossible conversations happen
Porn and triple murder? This ain’t the Oklahoma I recall
After reading the script of the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical classic, which is coming to Dublin soon, it becomes apparent that my school’s version left out a few bits
Apprehension as Harper Lee looks to follow up on perfection
‘New’ novel preceded Lee’s classic but was not published at the time
Outhouse library: a new home in Dublin for LGBT literature
Ciarán Clark has brought the Outhouse centre’s library back to life and created a city centre gem in the process
An Irishwoman's Diary: A mercurial Peter Pan of literature
The great French writer Colette was the first French woman to be given a state funeral - although she was denied a Catholic one because of her two divorces
Harlan Coben’s cliffhanger chapters add chutzpah
A round-up of the best new crime thrillers, including books by Sinéad Crowley, Jakob Arjouni, Erin Kelly and Mark Billingham
Sometimes fiction is better off sticking to the facts
The story of the true-life murder of a mother and children is let down by unconvincing melodramatic subplots
Stranger than fiction: when crime captures the imagination
Nicola White’s new novel ‘In the Rosary Garden’ was inspired by the Kerry Babies tribunal and the Ann Lovett case. We recommend some other real-life fiction from Ireland and abroad
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