Niamh Towey: It’s possible to indulge in its festivities without disgracing yourself in the process

Writer dies in Manhattan hospital after infection, his agent Lynn Nesbit confirms

The Oscar-winning actor’s foray into fiction, with Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, has met derision online. Can it be that bad?

Documentary maker Alex Gibney has a habit of taking on big subjects. Now he’s investigating the unsolved 1994 Loughinisland massacre – and is not afraid to name names

As a Mayo girl in Nashville, I’m asked daily where I’m from and how I ended up here

‘Reading the first column now, at a remove of almost 20 years, the big surprise is that there was ever a second one’

Magazine has lost advertising and readership to online rivals

Painting was his first love, and the author allegedly wrote The Ginger Man in a pique after his work received a lukewarm reception

Warren Beatty, a true Hollywood maverick, sets the record straight on his six-decade-long career and the state of cinema today

Actor in ‘financial turmoil’ and spending $30,000 a month on wine, according to former managers

Ralph Steadman spent days trying to find Hunter S Thompson for their first assignment, the landmark article ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved’. The result changed journalism forever

Away from the theme parks of Orlando, the beaches to the north of the Sunshine State offer great options for family holidays

One of the city’s oldest Irish bars has counted many famous writers among its regulars, from Hunter S Thompson to Brendan Behan

‘Not a single respected critic spoke up for him. He was 40-1 with some bookmakers and nearly every expert feared for his safety against the monster that was Foreman’

Paranoid parenting isn’t about actual risk: it is about our need for control

‘Make every chapter your absolute favourite . . . Then, when it’s done, make the NEXT chapter your absolute favourite’

A new poll of the weirdest song lyrics ever includes songs by The Killers, The Beatles and Black Eyed Peas, but read between the lines and they’re not so strange

‘I’m grateful to the authors of shorter books, because my concentration is shot from the internet and all the coffee’