Maureen Dowd: Washington DC and James Joyce? Both incomprehensible
I bought a copy of Ulysses in Dublin long ago but had never mustered will to read it
I bought a copy of Ulysses in Dublin long ago but had never mustered will to read it
TV review: This interpretation of HG Wells’s work is dour and slow, but full of mystery
Signed copies of Joyce’s Ulysses and Wilde’s Poems, and works by Paul Henry to feature
Films, books and television often get the future right, writes Hugh Linehan
‘They’re using the vaccine to force people to say they’re over 70 when they’d pass for 50’
Genn is to be commended for choosing two such unlikable leads for her novel about a celebrity singer's toxic relationships
Irish writers have done more to promote Royal Ascot, surely, than English writers ever did
Welcome to The Irish Times book quiz: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge
‘There are helicopters and drones going around so people are staying in’
The most sustainable choice of all could also be a good investment
British have little conception of their own history beyond a few overly-fetishised events
An Irishman’s Diary on the English novelist who was a ‘friendly enemy’ to Shaw
Carlos Saldanha embellishes ‘The Story of Ferdinand’ with tried-and-tested subplots
Fleeting ministerial tenures point to short-termism inimical to change
Thanks to synaesthesia Lucy McKenna experiences the world differently to most people, and now, following a stint at Cern, she’s trying to explain huge questions in science with art
A convoluted plot that Potter-philes will love gets a thrilling, magical staging
Heavy security but no hint of the ‘forest of placards’ predicted by Gilmore five years ago
Poet was killed in 1936 on orders of troops loyal to Franco, police papers confirm
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
Ray Bradbury’s great dystopian vision is 60. Thankfully the book-burning world it depicts has not yet come to pass, so we can still read it and other dark visions
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices