Martin Amis

The growth of spoken-word festivals reflects our hunger for real-life experiences

Donald Clarke: The act of appreciation is just a refined version of what audiences do every day

Dublin International Film Festival: Stephen Merchant in town for winning wrestling comedy, ‘Fighting With My Family’

Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature

Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more

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

The actor says ‘pornographic’ scenes were filmed after she left the ‘London Fields’ set

Post is latest academic appointment for three-time Booker nominated author

Between World Cup and Euros, France has experienced 18 years of disconnection

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

‘There is nothing in the novel more harrowing than what people read in their newspaper’

‘Brought to Book’ Q&A: Australian author of Coal Creek and The Ancestor Game on the books that have inspired him

Alain de Botton explains the thinking that prompted him to marshal leading writers into closed organisations

Karl Miller: August 2nd, 1931 - September 24th, 2014

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

What to check out at the book festival this weekend in Dún Laoghaire

With the sixth Mountains to Sea almost underway, this year’s curator looks at the rise of the book festival

Review: A brave, humane novel, set in a concentration camp, takes a hard look the attrocities of the second World War

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

Candour and honesty define the life and work of Edmund White, the prolific American novelist with a genius for expressing the agonies of human sexuality

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

Ahead of an appearance at the Galway Film Centre, Jimmy McGovern, writer of TV dramas Cracker, Hillsborough and Sunday, is frank about being a ‘troublesome leftie’, meeting Martin McGuinness and bad writing

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

An attempt to organise my books brought me back to iodine tablets and youthful travel fantasies

A wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history of Paris

Sally Vincent - Born: April 22nd, 1937; Died: December 26th, 2013

In his revealing new documentary ‘Utopia’, distinguished journalist John Pilger paints a bleak picture of life for the aboriginal people of his native Australia

Trinity College Dublin seemed to have an especially fine array of eccentrics in the 1980s, making first year even odder for a convent girl from the west. This article features in a new book about the university in that decade

Obituary: Elmore Leonard 1925-2013

The American writer’s psychotherapist son has written a perceptive, honest – and angry – book about life with a literary giant

The Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas had many big names and big ideas but the true star was the big house itself

British novelist was in Co Carlow for an interview with journalist Sinéad Gleeson

Sailing, hurling and the Carlow Arts Festival among the highlights of a sunny weekend