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Michelle Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in July 2016 in Philadelphia. Photograph: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images Becoming by Michelle Obama: a civil centrist but a tough pragmatist too
  • Books
  • Jennifer Szalai
  • November 12, 2018, 11:29

First African-American first lady addresses ‘universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go’

Stan Lee: his Marvel Comics superheroes became national icons Stan Lee: his Marvel Comics superheroes became national icons
  • Film
  • Donald Clarke
  • November 12, 2018, 21:52

Donald Clarke: Writer gave superheroes like Spider-Man and Captain America complex interior life

Stan Lee, Marvel Comics visionary, is dead at 95 Stan Lee, Marvel Comics visionary, is dead at 95
  • Culture
  • November 12, 2018, 19:33

Marvel comic-book writer was credited with adding greater complexity to characters

Ruth Ellis: The model who smiled at her executioner Ruth Ellis: The model who smiled at her executioner
  • Visual Art
  • Shilpa Ganatra
  • November 12, 2018, 05:00

New exhibition explores the life of the last woman to be put to death in Britain

Freddie Mercury’s teeth in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’? Meet their maker Freddie Mercury’s teeth in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’? Meet their maker
  • Film
  • Mekado Murphy
  • November 12, 2018, 06:00

Rami Malek’s giant choppers were painstakingly crafted by Chris Lyons of Fangs FX

Ben Stiller goes darker for a real-life prison break Ben Stiller goes darker for a real-life prison break
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Michael Wilson
  • November 12, 2018, 07:00

Ben Stiller aims to deliver a gritty drama with echoes of the dark thrillers of the 1970s

Dublin city centre flats complexes to be demolished to allow for 'decent modern accommodation' Dublin city centre flats complexes to be demolished to allow for 'decent modern accommodation'
  • Heritage
  • Olivia Kelly
  • November 12, 2018, 00:30

Dublin city councillors move to allow demolition of Herbert Simms flats

Ireland’s first World War veterans: Shunned, ostracised, murdered Ireland’s first World War veterans: Shunned, ostracised, murdered
  • Heritage
  • Ronan McGreevy
  • November 10, 2018, 10:31

Hundreds of thousands of Irish soldiers returned home to a largely hostile country

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Maurice McCabe to reveal harrowing strain on family in new TV documentary Maurice McCabe to reveal harrowing strain on family in new TV documentary
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Kevin Courtney
  • November 11, 2018, 06:00

Nine of the best shows this week, including Whistleblower: The Maurice McCabe Story

Latest Film

Stan Lee: as chief writer and editor at Marvel Comics, he helped create the 20th century’s superheroes. Photograph: Chad Batka/New York Times Stan Lee: his Marvel Comics superheroes became national icons
Bohemian Rhapsody: Rami Malek wears prosthetic teeth in the Queen film to re-create Freddie Mercury’s overbite Freddie Mercury’s teeth in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’? Meet their maker
Sarah Henochsberg, Bouli Lanners and Justine Lacroix in Claire Burger’s “Real Love” Event of the Week: The IFI French Film Festival
  • Fantastic beasts and how she creates them
  • Claire Foy: ‘Pain plays a big part in all the characters I play’

Film Reviews

Jackson ploughed through the Imperial War Museum’s archives, polished up the footage, and rendered it in 3-D They Shall Not Grow Old

 
Benedict Cumberbatch in The Grinch The Grinch

 
As JJ Abrams-produced joints go, Overlord splats right in the middle Overlord

 
Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould and Jake Gyllenhaal in Wildlife. Photograph: IFC Films Wildlife

 

Latest Music

The Wood Burning Savages 15 rock and pop concerts to see this week in Ireland

Mumford and Sons, Nelly, Courtney Barnett, Kurt Viel, Mattiel and Vance Joy come to town

This Album Changed My Life: The Cure – Disintegration (1989)
The genre-blind Ensemble ériu make a rare lunchtime appearance in the John Field Room at the National Concert Hall on Thursday. Ensemble éiru make rare outing at NCH: the must-see jazz gigs this week
  • New artist of the week: Tank and the Bangas
  • Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: a man of energy, joie de vivre, vision and charisma

Album Reviews

Subplots: A Silent Phase

 
Imagine Dragons: Origins

 
Muse: Simulation Theory

 
THE BEATLES: The Beatles (White Album)

 
Manus McGuire: The Copperplate Sessions

 
Bob Dylan: More Blood, More Tracks - the Bootleg Series Vol 14

 

Latest Books

Michelle Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in July 2016 in Philadelphia. Photograph: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images Becoming by Michelle Obama: a civil centrist but a tough pragmatist too

First African-American first lady addresses ‘universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go’

Edy Poppy: I had to look for the essence of what had happened, to look for the emotional truth rather than the factual one. Jules and Jim and me: sex, lies and emotional truth
Lisa Harding shows us sex trafficking is right in our backyard, and it doesn’t always look like how we expect Photograph: Niall Carson/PA ‘Harvesting is not an easy book to read, but it is an essential one in this moment’
  • Jodi Picoult: ‘Abortion will become a privilege, not a right’
  • ‘The shambles of Maamtrasna’: The case of Myles Joyce, hanged and pardoned

Book Reviews

When the Hangman Came to Galway review: Grisly tales of crime and punishment
Tirzah and the Prince of Crows review: church, innocence and desire
Crimson review: No country for young women
Born Lippy review: honest, funny but not exactly inspiring

TV & Radio

Ben Stiller: “I was curious how something like this really happens,” he says of his prison break drama, Escape at Dannemora. Photograph: Geordie Wood/The New York Times Ben Stiller goes darker for a real-life prison break

Ben Stiller aims to deliver a gritty drama with echoes of the dark thrillers of the 1970s

Whistleblower: The Maurice McCabe Story: Katie Hannon and McCabe Maurice McCabe to reveal harrowing strain on family in new TV documentary
Achill Island sheep farmer Martin Calvey: overall winner of the Farming for Nature awards. Photograph: Johnny White Ireland’s eco-farmers emerge from the hedgerows
  • Podcasts: Adam Buxton
  • The Kardashians have crafted a breathtakingly cynical way to live

Stage

Lauren Coe as Emma in Landmark Productions and the Everyman world premiere production of Asking for It by Louise O Neill. Photograph: Hugh O Conor This week’s theatre highlights

Looking out for one another: Stage highlights take dispiriting look at blame, victimhood and apathy in society, and wonder about how to rebuild trust

The School Days of Thaddeus K: the name of Blue Raincoat’s protagonist recalls the Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, whose seminal 1975 work The Dead Class made school a living hell The School Days of Thaddeus K review: An elegant depiction of a dismal time
Double Cross: Ian Toner in this Abbey-Lyric coproduction Double Cross review: Thomas Kilroy’s chillingly resonant take on nationalism
  • The Lyric Theatre at 50: a cultural bridge in a divided city
  • Back to the future: Rough Magic’s Joyce adaptation is our theatre highlight

Art & Design

Ruth Ellis with her boyfriend David Blakely at the Little Club in London in 1955 Ruth Ellis: The model who smiled at her executioner

New exhibition explores the life of the last woman to be put to death in Britain

A selection of cans from Whiplash Brewing Company Art and craft: how beer packaging got creative
The Augurs I, II and III, by Martin Healy. Image courtesy Butler Gallery, installation photography by Roland Paschhoff Art in focus: The Augurs I, II and III by Martin Healy
  • We asked for your ideas to improve Dublin - here's what you said
  • TJ Maher comes out of the wilderness and Zurich portraits impress

Unthinkable

‘My position is to recommend that people consider parenting a child with Down syndrome, if given the opportunity’. Photograph: iStock Is economics corrupting our idea of human worth?

Unthinkable: Pro-choice author Chris Kaposy warns of ‘elimination of people with Down syndrome’

Angry bird: social media incentivises conflict over constructive dialogue. Photograph: Reuters Is it time to cut back on criticism?
America’s failure to repent the use of the atomic bomb contributed to “the ending of the western Christian civilisation”, says Desmond Fennell. Photograph: US Defense Department/Reuters What will replace ‘western civilisation’?
  • A ‘third way’ of looking at religion
  • Meet Ireland’s young philosopher of the year

Michael Viney's Another Life

Illustration: Michael Viney Poisoned and preyless: obstacles to rewilding Ireland with eagles

Restoring the golden eagle to the west has found the limits to bringing back a carnivore

“Like our neighbours, we once depended wholly on the stream, piped to the house by gravity from one of its higher pools.” Nature takes refuge as drought dries the landscape
“The view from the top balcony can be sublime.” Illustration: Michael Viney Clifftops have given me some of the high point of my life
  • For peat’s sake, our uplands need rain – just not too much at once
  • Michael Viney: The beauty of weeping beeches

Heritage

Pearse House flats Photograph: Tom Honan Dublin city centre flats complexes to be demolished to allow for 'decent modern accommodation'

Dublin city councillors move to allow demolition of Herbert Simms flats

British soldiers eating rations in the Ancre Valley in France during the Battle of the Somme, October 1916. Photograph: Lt. E Brooks/ IWM via Getty Images Armistice Day: The forgotten Sligo men who never came home from the war
French president Emmanuel Macron at a ceremony marking the centenary of the end of the first World War at the Douaumont Ossuary cemetery near Verdun. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AP First World War’s final hours: A French bugler sounded the ceasefire at 11am
  • Forgotten heroines: The Irish women who died in the first World War
  • Fintan O’Toole: The first World War is still being fought

Treibh

Luí na gréine. grianghraf: dara mac dónaill/the irish times Beo idir tonnta dorcha an Gheimhridh

Díth solais, údar ón Afraic agus seolta leabhar

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh. grianghraf: dara mac dónaill/the irish times Seó mór na Gaeltachta, Aisling?, ar camchuairt
Niall Ferguson – staraí Ar bhuille na haon uaire déag
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1 Bohemian Rhapsody: Rami Malek wears prosthetic teeth in the Queen film to re-create Freddie Mercury’s overbite Freddie Mercury’s teeth in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’? Meet their maker
2 Explosive: Friedrich Nietzsche. Photograph: Culture Club/Getty Images I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche review: A gripping read
3 Ruth Ellis with her boyfriend David Blakely at the Little Club in London in 1955 Ruth Ellis: The model who smiled at her executioner
4 Pearse House flats Photograph: Tom Honan Dublin city centre flats complexes to be demolished to allow for 'decent modern accommodation'
5 Michelle Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in July 2016 in Philadelphia. Photograph: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images Becoming by Michelle Obama: a civil centrist but a tough pragmatist too
6 Banksy’s Girl With Balloon is destroyed moments after being sold for more than £1m. Photograph: PA Banksy’s Girl With Balloon is destroyed moments after being sold for more than £1m. Photograph: PA Banksy’s greatest work of art: putting £1m through the shredder
7 Marvel Comics co-creator Stan Lee attends a tribute event at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, California last year. File photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters Stan Lee, Marvel Comics visionary, is dead at 95
8 Jesmyn Ward has to deal with the festering cache of Black American history. She does it brilliantly. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward review: Deep darkness in the Deep South
9 Illustration: Morten Morland The wise man, a short story by Donal Ryan
10 EO Wilson and Richard Dawkins: had a disagreement about evolution Unthinkable: How can scientists disagree on basic ‘facts’?
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Leo Varadkar is hoisted on shoulders after being elected as leader of Fine Gael at the Mansion House, Dublin. File photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times ‘Leo Varadkar: A Very Modern Taoiseach’ is shallow, flimsy and exaggerated
Spike Lee at the premiere of his new film ‘BlacKkKlansman’ in California. “I hope that this film can give some little extra push or touch or anything to get people to register to vote.” Photograph: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Spike Lee: ‘Nothing Trump has done has surprised me’

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