John Grisham

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Joel Schumacher: “I caused a lot of trouble with my movies on purpose.” Photograph: Benjamin Norman/The New York Times

For the rest of the world, Joel Schumacher, who died on Monday at the age of 80, was one of the men who – then already deep into middle age – helped i(...)

 Director Joel Schumacher poses backstage during the 11th Annual Hollywood Awards  at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in October 2007 in Los Angeles, California. File photograph: Charley Gallay/Getty

Film director Joel Schumacher has died at the age of 80. The filmmaker, whose hits included Batman Forever, St Elmo’s Fire and The Lost Boys, died of(...)

Dumplin', starring Jennifer Aniston. Photograph: Netflix

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle December 7th Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. Photograph: Netflix With Jon Favreau’s 2016 live action Jung(...)

The eight men scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in Arkansas, beginning on April 17th. The Arkansas Supreme Court has now halted the execution of Bruce Earl Ward (top right). Photograph: Arkansas Department of Corrections/via Reuters

As the bells ring out on Easter weekend from the many churches that pepper the streets of Washington DC, there is an air of quiet about the city. Cong(...)

The Girl on the Train writer Paula Hawkins make the Forbes list of richest authors. Photograph: the Guardian

Former financial journalist Paula Hawkins has become one of the world’s highest-paid authors, leap-frogging Game of Thrones bestseller George RR Mart(...)

McKinsey has just asked 14 chief executives which books they will be taking to the beach this year – and the result is one of the most naked displays of one-upmanship I’ve ever seen

Showing off if you are a chief executive has never been harder. The traditional ways of flaunting it are out. Conspicuous consumption is not only vulg(...)

 Bryan Adams performs  at the 2016 Juno Awards in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 3rd, 2016. File photograph: Mike Ridewood/Reuters

Canadian singer Bryan Adams has cancelled a show in Mississippi to protest a new state law that will allow people with religious objections deny servi(...)

Stormont Parliament buildings: The problem goes beyond everyone knowing everyone else, or of our ‘elites’ being more of a brass ring than a golden circle.  File photograph: Paul Faith/PA

I must confess to a provincial thrill at Northern Ireland’s Nama scandal – and I may not be alone. Last week’s BBC Spotlight investigation featured hi(...)

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Great Gatsby film. F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel is an option on the 2017 single text list for Leaving Cert

Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman has topped reading lists all over the world this summer. The story of the long-hidden second novel by the bestsellin(...)

‘I became a New Yorker in some ways and thrived on the energy, the buzz, the pace and the constant drive to do more, achieve more and better myself.’

When I remember how quickly I jumped on the chance to go live in New York, it is entirely fitting of the city that was about to become my second home(...)

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