Stephen King

Roddy Doyle, Sarah Crossan and Shane Hegarty on the role songs play in their craft

When confronted by the BBC’s noisy, modern version of The Pursuit of Love, harsh reality clashes with a long-held principle and this viewer finds himself fuming

I’ll write to make the actors cry again – laugh, too. We’ll need a laugh after this

US Politics: Republican moderates probably won’t prevail in battle for party’s soul

Z Nation, The Monkees, Buffy and 2000AD are fine examples of brilliance by stealth

Start with something easy, don’t look up every word you don’t know, and other tips

Stephen King impressed by Cavan’s resilience and style of play under Mickey Graham

Scare yourself silly with this list of everything from classic films to modern hits

Including Immigration Nation, Project Power and a blast from the past with Cobra Kai

The activity of ‘stans’ online is not entirely harmless - dissenters get abused

From established talent to rising stars, here is our reading guide for the months ahead

Director Braden Croft combines double crosses with life-threatening degradation

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

Tips for budding authors and poets, from beating writer’s block to finding an agent

And, more importantly, will we be able to watch him star in Dune from a cinema seat?

Isolation has opened our eyes to how easy it now is to communicate in sound and vision with distant workmates, family and friends

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

Planet Business: The week when Johnson unleashed himself again

Film-makers criticise author for saying he ‘would never consider diversity in matters of art’

Set list, stage times, tickets info and more for the masked heavy metal band’s Dublin concert

Book review: Nicolas Giacobone’s first novel is about a screenwriter held captive in a basement

Review: Ewan McGregor stars in a less intense sequel to The Shining

The Dullahan was a malevolent harbinger who demanded blood sacrifice in the form of decapitation

Tina Callaghan’s gothic mystery set on an island off Ireland heaps drama upon drama

The Ostrichpillow Light does a lot to reduce the suffering of budget flights

Review: Guillermo del Toro produces a very agreeable horror romp to appeal to teens

Review: The show’s creators take us to their spiritual home, repackaging the 1980s as they go

The Irish Times what-to-see guide to the movies now in cinemas across Ireland

When the Irish crime writer got a rave from the US master, it took her literary journey full circle

The author has been exposed as a serial liar. But how did he get away with it for so long?

’There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book’

‘Black Panther’ voted best movie while ‘The Walking Dead’ takes top TV show title

From Shakespeare to Emily Bronte, literature has featured strongly across her 10 albums

The silver screen’s spooky best from the last 100 years of cinema

The US teen is one of the best of a wealth of young, female, ’90s-tinged up-and-comers

Patrick Freyne: Hobbits, Phil Collins, The Monkees – these were my role models

Donald Clarke: The 21st-century viewer wants to sink soothingly into a world they already know

‘If you always wanted a convertible and you get one then why should we demean that?’