Elon Musk fuels further speculation about Twitter bid
Tesla founder working to secure the necesssary financing for takeover of social media group
No grand theory can explain the Ukraine crisis
Politics: The past couple of months have been embarrassing for intellectual elegance
The Divine Comedy: Charmed Life review – the Poet Laureate of Pop Music collected
More than just a condensed version of 30 years of Neil Hannon’s work
America needs political waverers like Sinema and Manchin
US Politics: For both senators, the basis of their opposition matters less than the fact of it
Michael Palin, Mike Leigh and Christy Moore: This week’s unmissable online events
Celine Byrne and Robert Webb also among the virtual attractions over next seven days
Sean Moncrieff: The Irish are in danger of losing their superpower
We are getting sucked into a binary view of the world: life isn’t black or white; it’s grey
Budd Schulberg: The screenwriter who made Marlon Brando a star
He spent a weekend with F Scott Fitzgerald, saw Nazi Germany and wrote On The Waterfront
Bertelsmann wins battle for Simon & Schuster with $2.18bn deal
Penguin owner ‘very confident’ of regulatory approval despite competition concerns
Maureen Dowd: Howling at the moon as America dumps Trump
President’s conspiracy schtick gets nowhere as Joe Biden’s Cinderfella story bewitches
Sufjan Stevens: The Ascension review – Reaching for something to believe in
An ambitious protest record that takes his favourite theme – America – to the next level
James Lee Burke: Donald Trump is ‘a master at capitalising on what is worst in people’
America’s greatest living mystery writer does not refer to the US president by name
On the centenary of Prohibition, is creative intoxication still a thing?
Writers have often used drink or drugs to ‘see beyond’ reality. Or was it all an illusion?
The Bull Will Come Out Tomorrow: this week's best theatre shows
A new play imagines the fractious compatibility between Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald, while an old musical makes a comeback for the summer
Seán Moran: Public vitriol towards managers and players is unacceptable
Fitzmaurice’s parting comments show a dark side to the passions in Gaelic games
Ruth Negga as Hamlet: Outsiders are in at the Gate theatre
Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’
Style on the high seas: The golden age of ocean liner design
Ocean liners were showcases of style, produced by some of the great artists of the age
‘The end of all operas are tragic, normally, so I’m terrible at crying’
In conversation: Tara Erraught and Fergus Sheil
Welcome to the United States, the world’s most unfree free country
Austin Letter: Climb Mount Bonnell and see a land of contradictions laid out below
Don’t drink, sleep when you want, get a cat: top 10 writers’ tips on writing
Think you still have that novel in you? Take some writing tips from Leo Tolstoy, Muriel Spark, John Steinbeck and other famous authors
Alice Cooper: ‘Larry Mullen is the only drummer to ask me for my lyrics’
The self-proclaimed executioner of the last taboos of the Western world on his Irish blood, not drinking – and finding religion
Kieran Donaghy’s star still burning as brightly as ever
Three years after he appeared set to retire, Donaghy still tormenting opposition defences
Apes, psychos, alcos: How British cartoonists depict the Irish
The DUP’s new prominence has turned the clock back on a strand of British cartooning
Tom Kettle and the ‘foolish dead’ who perished in foreign wars
Kettle died to liberate France which has long been an inspiration for Irish republicans
Aidan Gillen: ‘My ambition is to not have to chase money’
HBO has been the actor’s main employer for years, which enables him to do smaller projects, such as a reading of Joyce’s story The Dead in Dublin this week
Booked: Billionaires always figure out how to head off the competition
It’s not being a genius that makes you rich – it’s stopping your rivals
Booze as muse: writers and alcohol, from Ernest Hemingway to Patricia Highsmith
Nobel laureates Faulkner, O’Neill, Hemingway and Steinbeck were alcoholics, as were Brendan Behan, Dylan Thomas, Jean Rhys and many more. Anne O’Neill explores why
Keynes was halfway right about the facts
‘There is no harm in being sometimes wrong, especially if one is promptly found out’
Former U2 manager Paul McGuinness: Cracking crime on the Côte d’Azur
Paul McGuinness has turned to TV, joining forces with John Banville and Neil Jordan to make a crime series based on the French Riviera
George O’Brien: ‘Writing has taught me to be disciplined, to be patient, to persist’
Brought to Book Q&A: Irish author and academic on how he writes and what he reads
Eat your words
With the Ballymaloe Literary Festival taking place this weekend, here are 20 literary quotations to whet the appetite
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Common Ground
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