Jon Ronson

Chicken soup for the self-help fanatic: my secret library

Reading books aimed at personal growth has always been a furtive activity for many

Angela Nagle: What the Alt-right is really all about

Their key concern is race, as they embrace slippery use of irony and sense of hip elitism

‘Black Mirror’: Charlie Brooker’s dark, disturbing reflections of who we are

Television review: ‘Black Mirror’, ‘Crazyhead’ and ‘Paying for Sex’

Laura Slattery: Diary of a despairing, caffeine-dependent hack

A year of ‘Poldark’, paranoia and seeing off a threat from Pixie Pickle Pants

Radio: It’s a struggle to move on when all roads lead to Paris

Review: ‘Sunday with Miriam’, ‘Marian Finucane’, ‘The Right Hook’, ‘Off the Ball’, ‘Tom Dunne’, ‘Moth’

Read it and weep: how teenagers relate to the books written for them

Young adult fiction is the largest growing genre in contemporary fiction

Queen Maeve: Higgins on her new book ‘Off You Go’

‘My career is different to my male peers. I was always told that I was ‘niche’

Gleeson and Scott win at British Independent Film Awards

Respective performances in ‘Calvary’ and ‘Pride’ recognised with male acting prizes

Calvary receives four nominations at British Independent Film Awards

John Michael McDonagh nominated for best director, Brendan Gleeson in running for best actor

My Cameroon odyssey with the preacher man

The Ian Paisley I knew displayed an admirable lack of vanity

Summer books that sizzle – whether it’s sunny or not

It’s hard to beat the pleasure of settling down on a sun lounger or sofa with a good book. Here are 25 of the season’s best to choose from

Lenny talks Frank: the movie that won't give him a big head

In Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film, Michael Fassbender plays the lead character from inside a huge papier-mache head. The Irish director gives us the lowdown on the notorious noggin, his ‘Celtic Tiger Trilogy’ and more

Fassbender and stars attend ‘Frank’ opening in Dublin

Film inspired by Jon Ronson memoir depicts both joyous creativity and mental collapse

Jon Ronson: ‘I still see myself as marginal’

The writer often focuses on people who live in irrational bubbles, such as Frank Sidebottom – but then, it’s a state of mind he has personal experience of

Screen by screenwest

This year’s South By Southwest film festival features winning movies in ‘Chef’, with Jon Favreau, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey jnr, ‘Frank’, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson; Mike Myers’s ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’; and ‘The Legend of Shorty’, about the cartel boss Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman

A night on the tiles

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