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Genetic engineering: “Ten years ago if you said such a technology would be widespread, people would have laughed.”
Why gene editing is decade’s most significant innovation

Earlier this month, readers of The Irish Times voted gene editing as the innovation of the last decade, beating competition such as the cloud, smartph(...)

Stuff, it’s just stuff, but revealing stuff. Photograph: iStock
Can a list of someone’s stuff double as literature?
  • Books
  • July 19, 2018, 06:30

For three years, the French writer Thomas Clerc cloistered himself in his 50sq m Parisian apartment, compiling an annotation of his possessions, inclu(...)

David Duchovny at Central Park in Manhattan, April 16, 2018. His novel’s heroine Emer Gunnels is a 41-year-old New York schoolteacher who likes to take the subway, eat ice cream and make love with her boyfriend, Cuchulainn, a writer known as Con. Photograph: Clement Pascal/The New York Times
David Duchovny: I’ve written a book based on Cuchulainn

I’m a sucker for a man who reads Yeats. So I’m bound to like a man who bases his novel on an obscure Yeats play. “When I was at Yale in graduate scho(...)

More than 1,000 people attended a memorial service to the late poet Seamus Heaney in New York last night. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien/The Irish Times.
Writers recall ‘beloved teacher’ Heaney at New York memorial

The crowd spilled out into the aisles of Cooper Union Great Hall in New York City to hear 20 American and Irish writers read the words of Seamus He(...)