Chronic anxiety prevents him touring, but classical music offers an outlet

The actor and director talks Shakespeare ‘trutherism’ and his working-class upbringing

‘How to Be Invisible’, a collection of lyrics from across the singer’s 40-year career, will have introduction by novelist David Mitchell

Singer on how David Hockney inspired his album artwork, and the energy of New York

Robert Webb, the co-star of blokey comedy ‘Peep Show’ on his memoir, ‘How Not to Be a Boy'

Histories of hurt and trauma link Ireland with two Koreas and may show way forward

The Netflix series, which has celebrity guests fighting for a place, is in it for the long run

Back review: The Peep Show duo are now a fully mature odd couple, prone to looking back, in Simon Blackwell's new comedy

The drugs drama returns with true stories that beggar belief

Swiss company has been criticised for its ‘excessive’ pricing of Kymriah

Revolutionary Car-T treatment re-engineers blood cells in patients with leukaemia

TV view: Osborne’s election night delight underlined the factional nature of British politics

RTÉ’s documentary ‘Undocumented’ on Irish illegals in the US featured no women and rarely got beyond the surface of the issues

Dublin comedian proves 2016 wasn’t bad for everyone, finishing year on a career high

The artist talks music, Brexit and more as the album of her rare 2014 live shows is released

Review: ‘The Art of the Deal: The Movie’, ‘Fortune’s Wheel’, ‘The Big Fat Quiz of Everything’

Presence of Northern Ireland and Republic in Euros will bind communities more closely

An intriguing literary project by visual artist Katie Paterson called Future Library is putting novelists’ work in storage for a century

App lets users share up to 45 seconds of audio from a title they are listening to

Ulster University report finds GAA remains outside experience of most Protestants

A series of tweets let to this gripping modern twist on the haunted house genre

Summer is gone and the evenings are drawing in – fear not, there's a lot of great TV out there to get you through the coming months

From the unlikely setting of a farmhouse in Cavan comes ‘The Moth’, one of Ireland’s ‘coolest poetry magazines’ that has now gained an international following, and is the work of a husband and wife team

Michel Faber’s latest book was written while caring for his wife, Eva, who was dying of cancer. He calls it ‘the most deeply instinctive novel I ever wrote’

The most unpredictable election in a generation, they said. TV coverage proved that, for sure

After a career with Reuters, the Dubliner set up his own literary agency in London

The writer’s labyrinthine novels marry experimental narrative techniques with plot twists drawn from sci-fi and fantasy. In person, the writer is as restless as his literary style

The latest books news and listings

What to check out at the book festival this weekend in Dún Laoghaire

No Irish authors make the cut but two US writers feature for the first time

David Mitchell: June 20th, 1928 – August 30th, 2014

With the sixth Mountains to Sea almost underway, this year’s curator looks at the rise of the book festival

Deciding on a shape for your book can give you confidence and freedom

Granta has published its list of the best young British novelists, but can one publisher define a generation and what do young writers have over their older colleagues?