Margaret Atwood

Company’s in-house software platform could prove to be very profitable if it makes online events work well

Welcome to The Irish Times book quiz: 10 questions to test your literary knowledge

At this time of social isolation, books offer not just consolation but a portal to the most profound human connection

These days, exercise video games disguise fitness routines in the form of role-playing, dancing or running from zombies

Review: Élisa Shua Dusapin’s beguiling debut charts interior and exterior landscapes in South Korea

Unlike many stars, she has hardly put a foot wrong since her career-making role

Year as European Capital of Culture had been due to start with fire spectacle

The Decade in Culture: t’s up to us to reclaim the private self from Google and Facebook

The Decade in Culture: The most impactful books, series and performers of 2010-19

Some of Ireland’s most successful family-run companies share the secrets of their success

Seven well known readers and writers share the books they'll be giving and getting this Christmas

The General Synod and not Gafcon decides the policy and doctrine of the Church of Ireland

Booker Prize winning author puts hope in young people in battle against totalitarianism

Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood

It is time we remembered all Josephs and Marys whose dignity, freedom and lives were stolen

Edna O’Brien, Margaret Atwood show artistic imagination does not abide by aging

A strict embargo of September 10th was shattered after hundreds received early copies of the book

Science fiction convention in Dublin zapped visitors with lively and intense intelligence

Tóibín’s error when discussing the prose in genre fiction was to move from ‘I just get bored’ to ‘it’s blank, it’s nothing’

Review: The third season of the dystopian drama is rising with dread to its end game

Radio review: Her tale of forced adoption sounds like the stuff of fiction but is all too real

Students shared their relief on social media in the minutes following the exam

Mark Morris’s Pepperland, a dance celebration of the Beatles album, is coming to Dublin

Footage of secret concert on community centre roof in Sheriff Street in 1982 emerges

Book review: A captivating historical debut about a slave girl on trial for a double murder

Actor and dancer on the weird mind of Bill Bailey, the art scene in Berlin and the productions of Matthew Bourne

We asked some writers to tell us about their debuts ahead of their publication

The Year in Review: Young Offenders and Red Rock among our television favourites

The actual theme is ‘American Treasures,’ honouring ‘the heart and spirit’ and, clearly, the bodily fluids of the American people

From Hunter S Thompson to Philip Roth, Shirley Jackson and John Connolly, great writing has a way of making readers feel less isolated in a world of anxiety and upheaval

Alia Trabucco Zerán explores repercussions of the Pinochet era on the next generation

Rape and enforced surrogacy turn out to be less empowering than Yandy seems to have imagined

Despite the rain, thousands turn out to greet the pope at the Marian Shrine

Activists say 3,000 women have died of illegal abortions in the country since 1983

Discovering Dylan about the same time I discovered punk felt right. He’s like punk’s secret grandfather

What can the far right offer in return for people surrendering democratic power?

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

Travel Bag: We check out the deals so you don’t have to

As a white Irish woman in the US, I see subtle ways black women are discriminated against every day

Leni Zumas third novel, Red Clocks, has been described as a successor to The Handmaid’s Tale