Ian McEwan

Despite its ‘mistakes, lapses, and occasional acts of cowardice’, Europe remains ‘the second home of every free man and woman’

British bookshops are keeping stashes of ‘Normal People’ behind their counters

‘Palpable discord’ followed José Mourinho out the door at Old Trafford

John Banville, Colm Tóibín, Roy Foster among over 100 writers to express dismay over departure of New York Review of Books editor Ian Buruma

Review: Thommo just about rescues this silly adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel

Adherence to biblical strictures provides a solid base in an increasingly secular society

Review: Tale of Jehovah’s Witnesses portrays a world of suffocation and sly indoctrination

Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again

Donald Clarke: Few noticed her ‘Chesil Beach’ faux pas. Which is good. Isn’t it?

Review: Ian McEwan’s own script cannot find a cinematic substitute for his sharp prose

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

Top Irish writers part of Folio Academy which say prizes should be closed to US novelists

The three-time Oscar nominee on fame, Hollywood scandals, and the abortion referendum

Irish star may become only third female actor to score three Oscar nominations before age 23

He’s the first actor in the series who is ‘bigger than Bond’. They were desperate to keep him

Actor Ciarán McMenamin’s debut captures the voice of disaffected youth in 1990s North

We all have the right to offend but not a licence to be coarse and vulgar

The English writer’s 17th novel is narrated by an unborn baby. Is it a prequel to Hamlet?

Carlow actor makes magazine’s ‘Next Generation Leaders’ list

From acting, casting and designing to writing comedy, novels and poetry, these women’s artistic endeavours have a wide influence

Impressive show for German language writers with 11 titles among 160 nominated

Who is David Gilmour’s favourite lyricist? Why are film adaptations inferior to the books? Can poetry replace liturgy? All these questions and more were answered in Co Carlow

There’s a literary feast awaiting the country in the coming week, with three festivals taking place. We’ve rounded up some places to fill your belly while you fill your brain

Alan Turing and his colleagues get the popular tribute they deserve in this pacy tale of derring-do

In the week that the 2014 Man Booker Prize was announced, see if you can match these opening lines to their Booker winning novels

Review: the chillingly formidable author has produced an ill-judged study of a legal mind

With the Dublin Theatre Festival kicking off this week, here are ten playwrights who have also penned novels

Martin Amis is a deeply moral writer with a Swiftian vigour. In his latest novel, ‘The Zone of Interest’, he returns to the story of the Nazi death camps

Ian McEwan pays homage to Yeats and Joyce in his new novel, which, in its story of a boy refusing a blood transfusion, dramatises one of the great confrontations of our time, between law and religion

No editor has time to look at a novel twice. Leading editors offer advice to help writers make the most of their one shot

Sebastian Faulks, Hanif Kureishi and Helen Fielding are rivals for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize

An online campaign wants to get readers to seek out women authors, whether new, overlooked or forgotten

American Studies Association says move is ‘in solidarity with scholars and students deprived of academic freedom’

What more natural challenge to set during Dublin Writers Festival than to play Scrabble against The Irish Times?

The 23rd novel of spy fiction’s master storyteller is full of simmering rage