This Sporting Life: Richard Harris throws the kitchen sink at it

Harris demonstrates his sporting prowess in Lindsay Anderson’s debut feature as director

Beware of the rush to get back to normal business amid Covid-19

Epic novel Moby Dick offers us a lesson in dealing with the coronavirus maelstrom

Don’t judge a book by its coverage

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

Great White Fail – Frank McNally on going where few book-lovers have gone before and reading all of Moby Dick

‘After sex on the damp sheets, we passed out’: Lowlights from Moby’s memoir

Natalie Portman has disputed the musician’s account of their ‘relationship’. But fear not: his new book has plenty more steamy stories

High-brow Yale tours and low-brow fun in beautiful Connecticut

Even my American friends were baffled. ‘What’s there?’ they all asked. A lot, it turns out

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On Chesil Beach: Saoirse Ronan’s new film not wholly satisfying

Review: Ian McEwan’s own script cannot find a cinematic substitute for his sharp prose

Stony but not grey – An Irishman’s Diary about Paul Durcan’s memories of Patrick Kavanagh

Whale watching in west Cork: ‘Sometimes busy, sometimes quiet ... but a good trip either way’

‘Whales are wild animals - they don’t come up and wave their fins at us’

Veteran Cork actor Michael Twomey dies aged 84

Stalwart of the Cork stage was best known for his role in RTÉ’s ‘Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’

The Boy and the Beast review: An elaborate, unique cinematic talent

An orphaned boy joins a mythical kingdom and becomes a promising martial artist

Veteran actor best known for ‘Last of the Summer Wine’

Obituary: Peter Sallis. Born February 1st 1921; died June 2nd, 2017

Julian Barratt: from The Mighty Boosh to a ‘Partridgean joke’

Barratt plays a ridiculous 1980s TV star in his new comedy film, Mindhorn

A remote part of Norway where life is kept frozen

Artist Michael John Whelan is continuously drawn to the world’s most northerly settlement of more than 1,000 people