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The Zoom transgression that sank one of the United States’ best-known journalists
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 22, 2020, 11:24
Until Jeffrey Toobin’s fateful appointment with Zoom on October 15th, his quarantine was going better than most people’s. In August his eighth book, T(...)

New York’s not dead, but Covid-19 has laid bare deep-seated problems
- US
- August 29, 2020, 14:59
Shabazz Stuart was one year old when the TV sitcom Seinfeld first went on air, and seven when the much-loved show about nothing broadcast its final ep(...)

51 days on a ventilator: How ‘Miracle Larry’ survived coronavirus
- Health & Family
- July 24, 2020, 06:01
On Saturday, March 28th, Dawn Kelly got the phone call summoning her to the hospital to say goodbye to her husband, Larry. A palliative care social wo(...)

Emigrant Christmases: ‘I miss home but I’ll whack on The Pogues and have a drink’
- Abroad
- December 23, 2019, 06:00
Thousands of Irish people around the world will be celebrating Christmas far from home. Many are finding ways to keep Irish festive season traditions (...)

‘I have cried every day since I returned to Ireland’
- Abroad
- October 28, 2019, 06:00
It’s been one month since I returned to Ireland after almost six years living abroad. To say the transition back to life in Ireland has been difficult(...)

New York skyline lit up blue after transformer explosion
- US
- December 28, 2018
A bright blue light lit up the New York skyline on Thursday night after a transformer exploded at an energy facility. The blast prompted a brief fire(...)

Philip Roth: Prolific writer who explored life with simmering intensity
- Books
- May 23, 2018, 09:03
Philip Roth, who died on Tuesday at the age of 85, was a prolific, protean and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th centu(...)

Philip Roth's final interview: 'Life can stop on a dime'
- Books
- January 22, 2018, 06:01
With the death of Richard Wilbur in October, Philip Roth became the longest-serving member in the literature department of the American Academy of Art(...)

Inside Amazon’s new bookstore in New York
- Retail & Services
- May 26, 2017, 18:34
Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, has often struck a defiant tone when asked about the company’s dominance of the book industry. “Amazon is n(...)

All that glitters far from gold for ‘dump the Trump name’ residents
- US
- November 16, 2016, 20:18
President-elect Donald Trump will not be sworn in for two more months, but as of next week the big gold letters spelling out his name will be removed (...)