Dorothy Parker

Gershwin and Dorothy Parker: This week’s jazz highlights

One of the most exhilarating live acts on the Irish scene will also take to the stage

Vita & Virginia: A tale of literary lovers fails to make waves

Review: Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki struggle in a strait-jacket of a script

In a word... funeral

Dorothy Parker, when US president Calvin Coolidge died, asked, ‘How can they tell?’

‘My ex was a terrible person but I can’t stop looking at his social media’

Ask Roe: He’s with a beautiful woman, and I torture myself by looking at their profiles

A Star is Born: Bradley Cooper’s film is the third – arguably fourth – remake of the same movie

Will the new Lady Gaga film make as much cash as the Barbra Streisand version?

Wit’s end – On smartphones, the death of conversation, and Dorothy Parker

Frank McNally: An Irishman’s Diary

100 books by women you have to read

Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list

Hollywood’s problem is endless sequels, not remakes

The news that Spielberg is remaking ‘West Side Story’ drew some fire, but some of our best-loved films are remakes or ‘fresh’ adaptations of original novels. Need we go on?

Honor Heffernan and Trevor Knight: The Whistling Girl – bringing Dorothy Parker’s dark wit to life

JP Donleavy obituary: acclaimed author of ‘a bawled-out comic song of sex’

The Westmeath resident and son of Irish parents felt no sentiment towards Ireland

Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary review: Spinning hearts in 1980s Dublin

A powerful debut about a doomed romance recalls the novels of Donal Ryan

Maeve Brennan: loneliness elevated to an art form

Eileen Battersby reviews The Long-Winded Lady, Maeve Brennan’s New Yorker sketches, as part of our extensive coverage marking today's centenary of her birth

Never mind the asterisks: A brief history of the word f**k

Studies show that swearing eases pain, is cathartic, helps bonding and lets off destructive steam... but beware of overuse, lest you lessen the effect

Robert Pinsky: ‘I don’t like the idea that poetry is marketed’

The three times US poet laureate is in residence at the Kilkenny Arts Festival

Going solo: the rise of single women in Ireland

Singles are swelling in numbers: the last census indicated there are 392,000 one-person households in Ireland. So why does the idea that singledom is a bold choice for women persist?

Peter Swanson: ‘Being lost in a book is one of the greatest feelings in the world’

Brought to Book Q&A: Author of The Kind Worth Killing on Harry Potter, Lucky Jim and his other favourite reads