In a Word . . . Constant
When ordering a round, I rediscovered I was dealing with the rudest bar staff in Ireland
Peaky Blinders, never a great drama, returns without the electrifying Helen McCrory
TV review: The BBC show is still a triumph of style over plot but it hasn’t lost its swagger
Golda Schultz: ‘Back to that conversation between performer and artist’
The South African soprano talks about the inspiration behind her upcoming NCH performance
Michael Stipe: ‘Cold-ass b**ch was a coat I put on to protect myself. I can take it off now’
The artist and REM singer talks American presidents, parties and photographing his heroes
‘What the film says is that you can hold on to your principles, and still emerge a winner’
David Puttnam recalls series of accidents that helped make Chariots of Fire a classic
Is there a better closing scene in any running film than Chariots of Fire?
A hymn plays at Abrahams’s funeral and young men run barefoot on an open beach
Ralph Fiennes: ‘English society is built on hierarchies’
The actor on playing a high-achieving, under-recognised archeologist, and English society
Fintan O’Toole: Brexit is like having to listen to someone else’s dreams
The epic story of liberation has become mesmerisingly tedious
Daniel Johnston, enigmatic cult songwriter, dies aged 58
American artist sang candidly and sometimes disturbingly about his demons
Why does the heart want what it wants? Desire at Imma
A new exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art strips back to a primal force
Mary Oliver, prize-winning poet, dies at 83
Her work, with its plain language, drew a wide following but divided critics
Mourners bid farewell to ‘beguiling’ critic Eileen Battersby
Grieving daughter Nadia pays tribute to mother and friend ‘inspired by generosity’
Wildlife wonders for little people
Children’s books: from wood mice and red squirrels to beetles and termites, there’s plenty of nature in these new releases
Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ as a rock opera? Jesus Christ...
Donald Clarke: The Who’s ‘Tommy’, ‘Quadrophenia’, Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’, Lloyd Webber. Enough
Joe O’Connor: Bob Dylan the punk and me
Discovering Dylan about the same time I discovered punk felt right. He’s like punk’s secret grandfather
The next Elena Ferrante? The best European fiction coming your way
A devastating French debut, a controversial Norwegian saga ... the best new euronovels
Walton Goggins: ‘I’m very grateful Quentin Tarantino saw something in me’
The actor, who made his breakthrough in The Hateful Eight, puts the same thought into his Tomb Raider character that another actor might reserve for Richard III
Career highlights? Selling a Ming dish and the piano from Rick’s Café
Patrick Meade has sold everything from shipwreck treasure to showbiz memorabilia
Declan Kiberd on Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize for literature
Mr Tambourine Man is arguably the most pirated pirate in the history of modern music
London Letter: Brexit recalls rebel spirit of the 1960s
A new exhibition about the decade celebrates Britain when it was at its most thrilling
Culture Shock: Brexit nationalism is on the rise, but its cultural base is crumbling
Leave campaigners cling to ‘Jerusalem’ and ‘This scepter’d isle’. They’ve misunderstood both William Blake and Shakespeare
A taste of Bob Dylan: 10 songs to beat The Band
Sheer, dizzying, heartbreaking brilliance: superfan Joseph O'Connor's selects his playlist
M&S expected to report first increase in annual profits in four years
Too early to tell if Marc Bolland’s costly recovery plan finally working
Great 20th century mystic Thomas Merton was born 100 years ago next Saturday
‘A voice crying forever into the north wind of indifference’
Ex-Ireland and Lions outhalf Jack Kyle remembered at service
Willie John McBride: ‘He was just one of the great men of this world, I am just proud I had him as a friend’
Brought to Book: Rob Doyle on Keith Talent, Nietzsche’s morals and stone-cold classics
‘I’m grateful to the authors of shorter books, because my concentration is shot from the internet and all the coffee’
The Irish William Blake: The Writings of James Barry and the Genre of History Painting
Review: Barry believed that the sole purpose of landscape was to serve as background to the depiction of “significant human action”, which was the central business of a serious painter
Unthinkable: Should we ever be ashamed of our bodies?
Is obsessing about appearances, and the ‘spectacle of the public putdown’, all driven by economics?
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