Salman Rushdie

EL James’s books triggered an erotica boom. They have also been cited in sex-crime cases

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

Author says he was phoned by Swedish Academy number shortly before announcement

Writers including Salman Rushdie criticise the 2019 Nobel laureate over support for ‘genocidal regime of Slobodan Miloševic’

We all have our own Oz, be it fame, money or love. For immigrant families like mine, it is usually an actual place

Natalie Portman has disputed the musician’s account of their ‘relationship’. But fear not: his new book has plenty more steamy stories

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

Since Chaucer there has been a rich tradition of writers inspired by religious buildings

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

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

Fitzmaurice's memoir 'I Found My Tribe' is a joyful and raw account of life after her husband’s MND diagnosis

Fisher’s final acting role was in Horgan’s TV show, ‘Catastrophe’. The night before the Hollywood legend returned to LA, they went for dinner. Here, Horgan recalls that evening, and their friendship

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

Many in Saudi Arabia privately agree with cleric who questions tenets of Wahhabism

There has been a breakdown of European ethics in favour of bourgeois security

‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ is based on attempt to kill reggae king Bob Marley

Documentary maker Mark Walsh finally felt he had to intervene, and now works for MSF

Like many good summer reads, these three novels are moving page-turners, but their headlong dive into the dark challenge the notion of sun-holiday fiction

Author of The Tin Drum passes away in hospital in Lübeck

Even before attack on cafe where he was speaking, Vilks had armed protection

In today’s web-encircled world, the media increasingly gets the message: publish and you will be damned

Stars to contribute to project about fathers and sons to raise funds for the Irish Hospice Foundation

Preacher says Charlie Hebdo attack victims were to blame for their own deaths

A selection of the best, oddest and most memorable musings by some of the world’s artistic greats, as told to Irish Times writers

A visit to Detroit reminded Kevin Boyle ‘of the ghettos of Belfast’

Criticism of teenager shot by Taliban includes designated ‘I am not Malala’ day

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

Hilary Mantel’s short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher caused outrage with its recent publication in the Guardian, but it’s not the first and won’t be last piece of fiction to raise hackles

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

Review: The Liverpool luvvy gets the Jeff Pope treatment; ‘The Leftovers’ is a beautiful-people redo of ‘The Returned’

Nigeria, with its tradition of exuberant storytelling, is central to the writer’s identity. He’s alarmed by the Boko Haram abductions there – part of a series of events that could, he says, trigger something terrible

Festival featured a range of authors including Sebastian Barry, Donal Ryan and John Banville

Dalkey debate covers topics from death threats, Edward Snowden and Fr Ted

He likes to blur the lines between fact and fiction, and if pushed he might recite some Tolkien in Elvish – this is not the type of conversation one associates with Rushdie

García Márquez emulated his grandmother’s storytelling ways