From barking to Bill Cosby: Hannibal Buress’s never-ending tour on the comedy circuit

A routine about Bill Cosby catapulted him up the comedy rankings, but with a host of impressive TV and film credits, and a wealth of experience earned the hard way on the comedy circuit, Hannibal Buress has a rightful claim to the US comedy throne

Irish language is far from dead, linguist claims

Dr Séamus Ó Direáin mapped dialects in the Aran Islands over 25 years for new study

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ belongs to elite of undisputed classics

Lee makes it obvious it is not Robinson on trial, but the racism of the American South

A window onto the world of Mark Twain

Samuel L Clemens dictated hundreds of pages of autobiography that ranged from the nonexistence of God to postal-service vagaries

DiCaprio and Luhrmann on Gatsby: ‘The novel both celebrates and is an indictment of the American dream’

Great Scott! Luhrmann’s latest labour of love has arrived.

Mud

Jeff Nichols: the hippest young director on the block

Is it Southern Gothic? Americana? Or just another reason to love Matthew McConaughey? Jeff Nichols is back with the intruguing Mud