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Brad Pitt plays a cool-headed, emotionally-stunted astronaut Ad Astra: Brad Pitt has never been better than this
  • Film
  • Tara Brady
  • September 17, 2019, 13:14

Review: James Gray’s arty sci-fi epic is not above including a thrilling chase scene

Tina Turner: ‘I had a terrible life. I just kept going. You just keep going’ Tina Turner: ‘I had a terrible life. I just kept going. You just keep going’
  • Music
  • Amanda Hess
  • September 17, 2019, 06:00

She was a star in her 20s, battled years of abuse, topped the charts in her 40s, toured in her 60s, and now she would like to sleep in

Will Galway 2020 live up to its ambitious aspirations? Will Galway 2020 live up to its ambitious aspirations?
  • Culture
  • Miriam Haughton
  • September 17, 2019, 09:33

On the eve of its official launch, can Galway 2020 recover from controversy and deliver on its promises?

The prisoners whose sentences could last forever The prisoners whose sentences could last forever
  • TV, Radio, Web
  • Peter Crawley
  • September 17, 2019, 13:20

Crime and Punishment looked unflinchingly at prisoners incarcerated with no end date

Two Souls: Paramilitary and punk the divergent paths of Troubles youth Two Souls: Paramilitary and punk the divergent paths of Troubles youth
  • Books
  • David Keenan
  • September 17, 2019, 06:00

Book review: Henry McDonald’s novel taps into adolescent energy of 1970s Belfast

Christopher Eccleston reveals battle with anorexia and depression Christopher Eccleston reveals battle with anorexia and depression
  • Film
  • Frances Perraudin
  • September 17, 2019, 10:59

Doctor Who actor writes his life-long struggles with mental health and eating disorders in autobiography

‘The struggle to control knowledge is as old as society itself’ ‘The struggle to control knowledge is as old as society itself’
  • Books
  • Elizabeth Mac Donald
  • September 17, 2019, 05:15

The manipulation of the masses by an elite is not just a contemporary problem

Demi Moore: ‘My life unravelled. I had no career. No relationship’ Demi Moore: ‘My life unravelled. I had no career. No relationship’
  • Film
  • Dave Itzkoff
  • September 16, 2019, 06:00

After years of scrutiny of her career, relationships and body, the movie star lets her guard down

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  • Culture
  • Thomas Docherty
  • September 14, 2019, 05:00

Political rhetoric of our time is conditioned by insult and hardly concealed violence

Latest Film

Christopher Ecclestone: the actor has revealed his struggles with anorexia. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Christopher Eccleston reveals battle with anorexia and depression
Demi Moore in Beverly Hills. Photograph: Ramona Rosales/The New York Times Demi Moore: ‘My life unravelled. I had no career. No relationship’
Lulu Wang, director of The Farewell: ‘I made something that is unapologetically me – both Chinese and American.’ Photograph: Joyce Kim/New York Times Lulu Wang: ‘I thought The Farewell would be my last-ever film’
  • Elizabeth McGovern: A lifetime of living and acting with alpha males
  • Six of the best films to see in cinemas this weekend

Film Reviews

Brad Pitt plays a cool-headed, emotionally-stunted astronaut Ad Astra

 
Affecting performance: Ylva Bjørkaas Thedin Phoenix

 
Extra Ordinary requires epic suspension of disbelief Extra Ordinary

 
Jennifer Lopez is alternately maternal, sisterly, steely and warm Hustlers

 

TV & Radio

Crime and Punishment: Aaron, one of two prisoners the cameras follow at the dismal HM Prison Winchester The prisoners whose sentences could last forever

Crime and Punishment looked unflinchingly at prisoners incarcerated with no end date

Violence, more violence . . . Paul Anderson as Arthur Shelby. Photograph: Matt Squire/BBC/Caryn Mandabach Productions Peaky Blinders: a return to its roaring, raging best
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld in New York City. File photograph: Marc Stamas/Getty Images Seinfeld streaming rights bought by Netflix
  • TV guide: 13 shows to watch this week
  • Miriam O’Callaghan runs close to caricature of herself

Latest Music

“I was just tired of singing and making everybody happy,” she says. Photograph: Charlie Gates/The New York Times Tina Turner: ‘I had a terrible life. I just kept going. You just keep going’

She was a star in her 20s, battled years of abuse, topped the charts in her 40s, toured in her 60s, and now she would like to sleep in

Markus Feehily, Shane Filan, Kian Egan and Nicky Byrne from Westlife at the announcement of their upcoming show in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork in August 2020. Photograph: Darragh Kane Westlife bringing reunion tour back to Ireland in 2020
The Cars: Ric Ocasek in 2011. Photograph: Chad Batka/New York Times Ric Ocasek, lead singer of The Cars, dies aged 75
  • ‘Everybody’s life deserves an orchestra’
  • The Atrix: Legends back from the wasteland

Album Reviews

Little Hours: Now the Lights Have Changed

 
Liam Gallagher: Why Me Why Not

 
Girl Band: The Talkies

 
Pixies: Beneath the Eyrie

 
Gruff Rhys: Pang!

 
Jenny Hval: The Practice of Love

 

Latest Books

Elizabeth Mac Donald: “Time is not a straight forward-moving arrow; I see it like the dual-stranded helix. The past may be visited and some truth gleaned there that can inform our present and shape the future.” ‘The struggle to control knowledge is as old as society itself’

The manipulation of the masses by an elite is not just a contemporary problem

Catherine O’Flynn’s Lori and Max: features an aspiring detective, who looks to Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes for inspiration Stories for young readers: The best folktales for children
Margaret Atwood. Photograph: Arden Wray/New York Times Margaret Atwood: ‘Ireland risks being plunged into north-south warfare if they establish a border’
  • Vulgar Favours: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in US History (1999)
  • First look inside the new Museum of Literature Ireland

Book Reviews

Two Souls: Paramilitary and punk the divergent paths of Troubles youth
The Contested Identities of Ulster Catholics: trying to capture a community on the move
Talking to Strangers: Malcolm Gladwell at his best
The Age of Football: The ugly side of the beautiful game

Stage

Irish Food: a palatable piece of dinner theatre. Photograph: Anita Murphy Irish Food review: Nostalgia is served

Dublin Fringe Festival: A palatable tasting menu but the scattered folk memories of Irish cuisine leave you hungry for substance

How It Is (Part 2): Conor Lovett in a continuing exploration of Samuel Beckett’s prose. Photograph: Claire Keogh How It Is (Part 2): Beckettian murmurs in the existential mud
Looking for Paradise: a metaphysical treasure hunt. Photograph: Clément Martin Looking for Paradise review: The fringiest thing on the Fringe
  • The Justice Syndicate review: Jury duty becomes a game
  • Init: The Warm-Up Project review – The pre-performance takes centre stage

Art & Design

Niamh O’Malley, Untitled (barrier), detail. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh. Image courtesy of the artist. An absorption with substance and finish, as antidote to a fast-paced world

Aidan Dunne: Finding a handle on Niamh O’Malley’s new sculptures at the RHA

Damnatio Memoriae, Conor O'Grady This week’s best art exhibitions
Winter Cherry Tree, Makiko Nakamura, 2019, oil and metal leaf on linen, 41X41cms Art in Focus: Makiko Nakamura – Winter Cherry Tree
  • Dorothy Cross teams up with Lisa Hannigan for new Heartship art project
  • Insider art: finding release through creativity in Irish prisons

Unthinkable

‘Judging that a certain course of action is irrational is always relative to a host of other contextual considerations’ Photograph: iStock Why there will never be a cure for irrationality

Unthinkable: Justin E H Smith discusses technological utopianism, Slavoj Zizek and the role of comedy in philosophy

Pointing the finger: Shame is necessary, because it enforces essential social morals. But endless shame is emotional cruelty. Photograph: Getty Images When is it okay to shame another person?
‘Experienced change over clock time is like stepping over stones. If you run, each step crosses more stones.’ Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times Why does time fly? Maybe you’re not paying enough attention
  • Has mindfulness become just another wing of capitalism?
  • Ireland can manage without the church but can it do without myths?

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

‘For a smart, charming young woman like Maeve Brennan, able to waltz her way into the pages of Harper’s Bazaar and the New Yorker, the choice between Ireland and exile cannot have required much agonising.’ Maeve Brennan, a writer who was at home in neither Ireland nor America

From the archive: ‘Irish literature’s best-kept secret ... everyone should be reading her’

The 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the moon was marked this year Why are we so obsessed with anniversaries?
The contents of an American food parcel in December 1946. Photograph: Daily Herald Archive/SSPL/Getty Images. Rationing in 1940s Ireland: Drapers protest over clothes restrictions
  • Hotelier plans new Iveagh Markets Quarter in Dublin’s Liberties
  • Iveagh Markets ‘unsafe’ and in ‘advanced state of dereliction’

Tuarascáil

Aisteoir de chuid Phléaráca Chonamara i nDún Eochla, Inis Mór, i 1997. Grianghraph: Joe O’Shaughnessy Oidhreacht an Phléaráca

Cothrom an ama seo i 1991 a reáchtáladh an Pléaráca den chéad uair

Robert Mugabe i Harare na Siombáibe an tseachtain seo caite. Grianghraf: EPA/STR Cogadh na Talún
Déardaoin seo caite, ghlac mic léinn Choláiste Lú i nDún Dealgan páirt in agóid faoin laghdú agus an imeallú a dúradar atá tar éis teacht ar líon na n-ábhar atá á múineadh trí Ghaeilge sa scoil. Grianghraph: Alan Betson In am dul i ngleic leis an ‘lúb ar lár’
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Henry McDonald’s language succeeds in capturing the aggressive angularity of punk, its blunt refusal. File photograph: Virginia Turbett/Redferns Two Souls: Paramilitary and punk the divergent paths of Troubles youth
Malcolm Gladwell: His latest book tackles many diverse and ‘charged’ issues such as the Amanda Knox trial to the scandal of convicted coach Larry Nassar. Photograph: Conor McCabe Photography Talking to Strangers: Malcolm Gladwell at his best
Catherine O’Flynn’s Lori and Max: features an aspiring detective, who looks to Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes for inspiration Stories for young readers: The best folktales for children
Atlantic Podcast A three-part series exploring the mystery of Peter Bergmann - the man who came to Sligo to disappear
 
Dublin Fringe Festival 2019 Reviews, news and interviews from the capital city's biggest and most diverse festival
 

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1 “I was just tired of singing and making everybody happy,” she says. Photograph: Charlie Gates/The New York Times Tina Turner: ‘I had a terrible life. I just kept going. You just keep going’
2 Brad Pitt plays a cool-headed, emotionally-stunted astronaut Ad Astra: Brad Pitt has never been better than this
3 Demi Moore in Beverly Hills. Photograph: Ramona Rosales/The New York Times Demi Moore: ‘My life unravelled. I had no career. No relationship’
4 Had I the power, I would make it compulsory that anyone contemplating suicide should attend such an event as that at Maynooth six years ago. Patsy McGarry: In a Word . . .
5 Galway 2020: the launch of the official programme will take place on Wednesday. Photograph: Cormac MacMahon Will Galway 2020 live up to its ambitious aspirations?
6 Elizabeth McGovern: ‘I did feel like a fish out of water for a long time. I don’t anymore.’ Photograph: Aaron Richter/New York Times Elizabeth McGovern: A lifetime of living and acting with alpha males
7 Simon O’Connor, director of the new Museum of Literature Ireland. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times First look inside the new Museum of Literature Ireland
8 What Fresh Lunacy is This?: The Authorized Biography of Oliver Reed, by Robert Sellers
9 Chinese pianist Yuja Wang made her Dublin debut last week in Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, playing it with what you might call super-high resolution The Rachmaninov method: Practise like a snail, play like a gazelle
10 Malcolm Gladwell: His latest book tackles many diverse and ‘charged’ issues such as the Amanda Knox trial to the scandal of convicted coach Larry Nassar. Photograph: Conor McCabe Photography Talking to Strangers: Malcolm Gladwell at his best
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Lisa Harding: “handles a profoundly difficult issue with absolute care and multitudes of heart”
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