Donald Clarke: Problem is not with the writer but with the smallness of the critics’ minds

Patrick Freyne immerses himself in the musings, stunts and tears of YouTube’s biggest stars

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

Donald Clarke: BBC’s ‘novels that shaped our world’ list is terrible in a very particular way

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

Donald Clarke: Guilt is an important aspect of life and a vital part of the reading experience

Donald Clarke: A new print of A Clockwork Orange is on the way – get your boots on

Few writers could rival his versatility or claim such influence as adviser to two Taoisigh

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the auction house . . . A first edition of Jaws and a drawing by its author are snapped up

A friend and fan unpicks the complicated life of one of one of America’s finest writers

Anthony Cronin, begetter of the first Bloomsday celebration in 1954, organised one of Dublin’s greatest literary events to mark the centenary of James Joyce’s birth in 1982

‘Learn the word for everything and remember them. Learn the rules and forget them’

Written in 1986 as the introduction to a Dolmen Press edition of ‘Dubliners’ illustrated by Louis le Brocquy, but never used, this brilliant essay, recently found among the papers of the author, who died in 1993, appears here for the first time