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The cast of Kim’s Convenience. Photograph: Netflix Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in April
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Jennifer Gannon
  • April 1, 2020, 06:00

After Life’s second season and a new Mindy Kaling sitcom are among the latest arrivals

Can’t travel because of Covid-19? There’s always the inner journey Can’t travel because of Covid-19? There’s always the inner journey
  • Culture
  • Joe Humphreys
  • April 2, 2020, 11:15

Unthinkable: The coronavirus crisis is an opportunity for armchair tourism, says philosopher Emily Thomas

‘I knew she was loved’: Nick Grimshaw on Caroline Flack and mental health ‘I knew she was loved’: Nick Grimshaw on Caroline Flack and mental health
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Chris Godfrey
  • April 2, 2020, 10:35

DJ talks about health scare during Sport Relief challenge and dark side of celebrity

Little Women scene stolen by water bottles spotted in background Little Women scene stolen by water bottles spotted in background
  • Film
  • Stephanie Convery
  • April 2, 2020, 09:14

Greta Gerwig’s film of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel features some very modern items

Coronavirus: Fountains of Wayne star Adam Schlesinger dies aged 52 Coronavirus: Fountains of Wayne star Adam Schlesinger dies aged 52
  • Music
  • Kieran Southern
  • April 2, 2020, 09:40

Singer-songwriter best known for his work with the rock band and TV drama Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

John Boyne’s children’s short story competition: Read the winning entries John Boyne’s children’s short story competition: Read the winning entries
  • Books
  • John Boyne
  • April 1, 2020, 15:10

Tom O’Flaherty, Ryan Coughlan and Emma Broderick were chosen by some of Ireland’s top authors

What we need now: A primer in an all-consuming and fast-moving crisis What we need now: A primer in an all-consuming and fast-moving crisis
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Ed Power
  • April 1, 2020, 11:10

TV review: Miriam O’Callaghan’s Prime Time is far more effective than her Late Late Show

Edinburgh festivals called off because of coronavirus pandemic Edinburgh festivals called off because of coronavirus pandemic
  • Culture
  • April 1, 2020, 12:36

International Festival, Festival Fringe, art and book festivals, and military tattoo cancelled

The Strokes: ‘There was conflict, fear, and we got through it and made records’ The Strokes: ‘There was conflict, fear, and we got through it and made records’
  • Music
  • Alexis Petridis
  • March 30, 2020, 13:44

New York’s coolest band had faded. How did they come back with a brilliant new record?

Covid lockdown: Friends turn into Jack Sparrow, Mary Poppins, Edward Scissorhands and more Covid lockdown: Friends turn into Jack Sparrow, Mary Poppins, Edward Scissorhands and more
  • Film
  • March 31, 2020, 18:35

#CovidCloset features the friends dressed as Elton John, Mr Bean and Cruella de Vil

Latest Film

Little Women is known for being forward thinking – but not so forward thinking that it predicted the invention of plastic water bottles or Hydro Flasks. Little Women scene stolen by water bottles spotted in background
Harriet Clare as Mary Poppins. Covid lockdown: Friends turn into Jack Sparrow, Mary Poppins, Edward Scissorhands and more
Ferenc Legyel as Michael Curtiz in Curtiz, a film by Tamas Yvan Topolánszky recreating the drama behind the making of Casablanca. Michael Curtiz: The ‘pompous b*****d’ who shaped Casablanca
  • Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change
  • The Movie Quiz: Who is self-isolating with Whiskey and Lulu?

Film Reviews

Mila Al Zahrani’s performance and the urgency of The Perfect Candidate’s issues elevate it from the ordinary. The Perfect Candidate

 
Disney’s latest (almost) live-action reboot has commendably cast two rescue dogs in the title roles. Lady and the Tramp

 
Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg in Vivarium Vivarium

 
Clunky lines and obvious plot turns are aplenty in Uncorked Uncorked

 

TV & Radio

Grimshaw met Caroline Flack in 2007 at the Hawley Arms pub in Camden. Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage/Getty Images ‘I knew she was loved’: Nick Grimshaw on Caroline Flack and mental health

DJ talks about health scare during Sport Relief challenge and dark side of celebrity

Amy Huberman: ‘I was happy with toilet roll and hand sanitiser (as a birthday present) for now’ Amy Huberman’s Isolation Diary: ‘We’re finding things for Brian to paint’
#blackAF - official trailer 2:37 #blackAF - official trailer
  • What we need now: A primer in an all-consuming and fast-moving crisis
  • Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in April

Latest Books

Andrea Carter: “the most important thing is to love writing for writing’s sake, otherwise there’s no point.” Andrea Carter Q&A: ‘I wrote my first four books sitting upright in the spare bed’

‘Literary snobbery is nonsense. There is nothing wrong with wanting your readers to keep turning the pages’

John Boyne’s children’s short story competition: Read the winning entries
We’ve been meeting for eight years and, until the Coronavirus pandemic, we took it in turns to gather in each other’s houses. Photograph: Getty Images The rise of the virtual book club
  • Read Irish Women Challenge 2020
  • Michelle Paver: ‘My most disgusting experience? Eating a leopard slug’

Latest Music

FILE -- Adam Schlesinger performs with the string quartet Ethel, at Damrosch Park in New York, July 28, 2010. Schlesinger, a singer-songwriter for the bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy who had an award-winning second career writing songs for film, theater and television, died on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. He was 52. The cause was complications of the coronavirus, said Josh Grier, his lawyer. (Brian Harkin/The New York Times) Coronavirus: Fountains of Wayne star Adam Schlesinger dies aged 52

Singer-songwriter best known for his work with the rock band and TV drama Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Margaret Glaspy on making Devotion: ‘I learned that I’m stronger than I think I am, sometimes.’ Margaret Glaspy on songwriting: ‘Rinse and repeat to find the gems’
The Strokes are back with a new album called The New Abnormal. The Strokes: ‘There was conflict, fear, and we got through it and made records’
  • Anna Jordan: Directing her own musical destiny
  • Murder Most Foul: Bob Dylan’s strange, meandering, comforting 17-minute new song

Album Reviews

Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud

 
Robert Forster: Danger in the Past

 
Sufjan Stevens & Lowell Brams: Aporia

 
Margaret Glaspy: Devotion

 
Dua Lipa: Future Nostalgia

 
Moaning: Uneasy Laughter

 

Book Reviews

Handiwork: A beautiful rendering of the passing of days
You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here: Lively debut novel
The Butchers: masterful plot about pandemic and upheaval
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: How rape is used as a weapon of war

Stage

Owen Roe winning Best Supporting Actor Award at last year’s awards in the NCH. Photograph: Aidan Crawley Coronavirus: Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards ceremony cancelled

Irish Times managing director expresses hope event might be held at later date

Blindboy: one of the 50 writers taking part in Dear Ireland. Photograph: Alan Place Abbey Theatre moves online for ‘creative conversation’ about coronavirus
Siobhan Burke’s Irish dancing shoes. As the Riverdance 25th-anniversary tour approaches New York, a critic takes stock of her nearly lifelong relationship with the Irish dance extravaganza. Photograph: Liz Clayman/New York Times I was a teenage Riverdancer – and I may never get out
  • Sruth na Teanga review: Immersive, vivid and playfully persuasive
  • Wayne Jordan: ‘I didn’t feel like an artist anymore, but an interior designer’

Art & Design

Kari Kola’s Savage Beauty project for Galway 2020 turned Connemara mountains emerald and blue. Photograph: Christopher Lund Can an online video or image capture an artwork in all its real-world glory?

Visual art: Gallery closures highlight virtues and shortcomings of virtual viewing

Coronavirus: Photographs reveal the world’s great cities as ghost towns
Cecil Beaton and Stephen Tennant Young, glamorous socialites who indulged in every excess
  • Do these pictures look oddly familiar? How an Irish artist’s re-creations are going viral
  • Cleansweep: A magnum opus chronicling a contaminated landscape

Unthinkable

Prof Emily Thomas: ‘There’s a long history of arguing that armchair travel is better than real-world travel.’ Can’t travel because of Covid-19? There’s always the inner journey

Unthinkable: The coronavirus crisis is an opportunity for armchair tourism, says philosopher Emily Thomas

Socrates found that his philosophical way of life ‘gave him courage’, says Prof Paul O’Grady. Photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto Coronavirus: How can philosophy help us in this time of crisis?
The soul: If it’s not in here then where is it? Photograph: Getty Images Don’t give up on the search for your soul
  • Trust no one: The cynical logic of social media
  • Ireland has a strange relationship with the word ‘republican’

Heritage

Firemen hosing down the ruins of Kilteragh, Sir Horace Plunkett’s house outside Dublin, which was burned down by forces opposed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty during the Irish Civil War, February 1923. Photograph: Walshe/Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images ‘Irish Mansions Mined and Burned’: 275 houses destroyed in four years

From the archive: The destruction of Irish country houses, or Big Houses, between 1919 and 1923 saw about 275 houses destroyed

‘Not every woman is a born mother, although Irishwomen, as a race, have the reputation for being so’, Barbara Dickinson wrote in 1944. Intelligence, will power and skill: Depicting homemaking in 1944
Tomás MacCurtain, who was later murdered by members of the RIC in 1920, was the Brigade Commander of the Irish Volunteers in Cork city and county in 1916. Covid-19 derails events recalling murdered lord mayor of Cork Tomás MacCurtain
  • Out of 697 Dublin mayors, why have only eight been women?
  • Underwater study reveals possible quay at Brú na Bóinne

Michael Viney's Another Life

Once a local badger chose to wrench a bunch of leaves and stems from a stand of flowering daffodils. Both badgers and humans waiting on security from plague

Greater industry involvement required if bovine TB to be eliminated by 2030 target

Ireland had an estimated 223,000 Irish hares in the winter of 2018/19. Picture: Michael Viney Counting hares under the spotlight
Fish in seagrass. Illustration: Michael Viney Sea change for the worse as alien seaweed unmakes the bed
  • The trouble with terrapins and two wild reptiles living in Ireland
  • Bogged down: Bleak outlook for the west’s blanket peatlands

Tuarascáil

Foirgneamh an Roinn Gnóthaí Baile i bPlaza de la Revolución i Habana, Cúba: maireann leaganacha den ghrianghraf íocónach fós cé go bhfuil Che Guevara sa chré le fada an lá. Scéal an ‘Guerrillero Heroico’

Maíodh tráth gur réabhlóidithe ba mhó a bhí á n-easpórtáil ag Cúba

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Irish author Sara Baume’s new book is is an ode to spaces that are safe. Photograph: Jay Armstrong Handiwork: A beautiful rendering of the passing of days
Frances Macken examines the intricacies and anxieties of female friendship in her debut novel You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here: Lively debut novel
Emmanuelle Pagano, author of Faces on the Tip of My Tongue Booker International longlist: six of the best?
Aaron Monaghan in The Travels of Jonathan Swift by Conall Morrison, Blue Raincoat Theatre Company
Irish Theatre Awards Find out who’s been nominated this year, plus all our other coverage
 

Most Read in Culture

1 Amy Huberman: ‘I was happy with toilet roll and hand sanitiser (as a birthday present) for now’ Amy Huberman’s Isolation Diary: ‘We’re finding things for Brian to paint’
2 The cast of Kim’s Convenience. Photograph: Netflix Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in April
3 A woman prays during mass celebrated by priests from the roof of the San Gabriele dell’Addolorata church in Rome on Sunday. Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images A letter to Ireland from Italy: this is what we know about your future
4 John Boyne’s children’s short story competition: Read the winning entries
5 Little Women is known for being forward thinking – but not so forward thinking that it predicted the invention of plastic water bottles or Hydro Flasks. Little Women scene stolen by water bottles spotted in background
6 FILE -- Adam Schlesinger performs with the string quartet Ethel, at Damrosch Park in New York, July 28, 2010. Schlesinger, a singer-songwriter for the bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy who had an award-winning second career writing songs for film, theater and television, died on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. He was 52. The cause was complications of the coronavirus, said Josh Grier, his lawyer. (Brian Harkin/The New York Times) Coronavirus: Fountains of Wayne star Adam Schlesinger dies aged 52
7 Stranger Things, Murder Mystery, Bird Box and Unbelievable. Photographs: Netflix Netflix has revealed its most-watched content. You might be surprised
8 Grimshaw met Caroline Flack in 2007 at the Hawley Arms pub in Camden. Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage/Getty Images ‘I knew she was loved’: Nick Grimshaw on Caroline Flack and mental health
9 Prof Emily Thomas: ‘There’s a long history of arguing that armchair travel is better than real-world travel.’ Can’t travel because of Covid-19? There’s always the inner journey
10 Irish author Sara Baume’s new book is is an ode to spaces that are safe. Photograph: Jay Armstrong Handiwork: A beautiful rendering of the passing of days
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