Angela Lansbury: still a star at 90

The veteran actor, best known for playing Jessica Fletcher in ‘Murder, She Wrote’, credits Cork with saving her family. It’s just one of many plot twists in her extraordinary life

‘My love affair with Ireland is random, but the flirting started in childhood’

A Sicilian living in Ireland recognises what it is to be an islander: an obsessive curiosity for what makes us different

Was Aldous Huxley right about our brave new world?

A German-Irish production reshapes Huxley’s enduring dystopian vision

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Happy Birthday copyright, the ‘diesel dupe’ and the Goldman Sachs reading list

Baiting the censor: 10 books they tried to suppress

Hilary Mantel’s short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher caused outrage with its recent publication in the Guardian, but it’s not the first and won’t be last piece of fiction to raise hackles

Anthony Burgess on James Joyce: the lost introduction

Written in 1986 as the introduction to a Dolmen Press edition of ‘Dubliners’ illustrated by Louis le Brocquy, but never used, this brilliant essay, recently found among the papers of the author, who died in 1993, appears here for the first time

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Bad lands: Fahrenheit 451 and other fiery dystopias

Ray Bradbury’s great dystopian vision is 60. Thankfully the book-burning world it depicts has not yet come to pass, so we can still read it and other dark visions

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