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Author Catherine Ryan Howard: ‘A great cure for writer’s block is having to cover the rent’
Catherine Ryan Howard on her new thriller, Burn After Reading; heavy-drinking Hemingway; and the upcoming TV adaptation of ...
The Guide: The Cruellest Month, Finneas, Death of a Salesman and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
The Cruellest Month, the title for which comes from TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land, is curated by Sounds from a Safe Harbour ...
‘Incredible - real David Attenborough stuff’: thousands of young sharks discovered off Ireland’s west coast
In the vast expanse of the Atlantic Ocean, finding the precise area in the deep sea where young sharks are born and grow – a ...
Eden’s Shore by Oisín Fagan: Labyrinthine novel brimming with life
Eden’s Shore is less grounded than Nobber. It is less entertaining and more beautiful in its honesty. While savagery abounds, ...
Anne-Marie Duff: ‘I have the second half of my life to go. So, what am I going to fill that f**ker with?’
Known to a new generation of fans for her Bafta-winning Bad Sisters performance, Duff is back in Reunion, a gritty four-part ...
Dazzling tragedy of The Great Gatsby still stalks the American imagination
On Friday night the tower lights of the Empire State Building turn green in elegant tribute to The Great Gatsby, the slender ...
Drink to your elf: what is this striking red growth?
It is a fungus called the scarlet elf cup, Sarcoscypha austriaca. It grows on buried twigs of birch and willow and sends up ...
Meta to add Patrick Collison and Dina Powell McCormick to board
Meta Platforms will add former Republican official Dina Powell McCormick and fintech firm Stripe’s CEO Patrick Collison to ...
One Man in His Time by NM Borodin: Powerful memoir of horror after Russia’s October 1917 revolution
Less than five years before the start of the Irish Civil War, the fratricidal terror that followed Russia’s October 1917 ...
This new biography represents a robust synthesis of the life and ideas of one of Britain’s finest historians
Christopher Hill was one of 20th-century Britain’s finest historians, producing a slate of still influential books, from 1961 ...
'It is with us everyday' - mother of Creeslough victim on the tragedy two and half years later
Survivors and families of victims of the 2022 Creeslough explosion are still seeking answers. Video: Bryan O'Brien ...
Wild Grace: The Untamed Women of Modern Dance – An uneven celebration of radical feminist power
Sara Veale’s portrayal of nine dancers who rebelled against the constraints of classical ballet is so broadly glowing that ...