Christopher Hitchens

His loss will be felt keenly at a time when Anglophone literature is mired in a charmless and po-faced moral earnestness

The Democratic right may be out of favour – but it has a decisive say in running the country

The comedian on podcasting from Achill, his new children’s book, and comedy culture

The Missionaries of Charity was a hive of psychological abuse, say former members

The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life

Mistaken identity as Bennett, arguably, robbed at the RTÉ Sportsperson of the Year

Coronavirus: working from home is the future, get used to it

The children’s book by D’Arcy and Howard is a boy’s own story, a kind of abridged version of the rugby player’s career

In an extract from his memoir, Malachi O’Doherty recalls the end of his childhood, 50 years ago

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The Twelfth weekend neatly illustrates Freud’s ‘narcissism of small differences’

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US politics: This faultline feels less fraught than rifts over race, gender and sexuality

In Conversation: Emmet Kirwan and Ian Lloyd Anderson

‘On Chesil Beach is about a young, sexually inexperienced couple on a miserable honeymoon

Many of the world’s elite athletes can be seen sporting Kinesio Tape, which claims to successfully treat musculoskeletal problems – but scientists are not convinced