Reading books aimed at personal growth has always been a furtive activity for many

Their key concern is race, as they embrace slippery use of irony and sense of hip elitism

Television review: ‘Black Mirror’, ‘Crazyhead’ and ‘Paying for Sex’

A year of ‘Poldark’, paranoia and seeing off a threat from Pixie Pickle Pants

Review: ‘Sunday with Miriam’, ‘Marian Finucane’, ‘The Right Hook’, ‘Off the Ball’, ‘Tom Dunne’, ‘Moth’

Young adult fiction is the largest growing genre in contemporary fiction

‘My career is different to my male peers. I was always told that I was ‘niche’

Respective performances in ‘Calvary’ and ‘Pride’ recognised with male acting prizes

John Michael McDonagh nominated for best director, Brendan Gleeson in running for best actor

The Ian Paisley I knew displayed an admirable lack of vanity

It’s hard to beat the pleasure of settling down on a sun lounger or sofa with a good book. Here are 25 of the season’s best to choose from

In Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film, Michael Fassbender plays the lead character from inside a huge papier-mache head. The Irish director gives us the lowdown on the notorious noggin, his ‘Celtic Tiger Trilogy’ and more

Film inspired by Jon Ronson memoir depicts both joyous creativity and mental collapse

The writer often focuses on people who live in irrational bubbles, such as Frank Sidebottom – but then, it’s a state of mind he has personal experience of

This year’s South By Southwest film festival features winning movies in ‘Chef’, with Jon Favreau, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey jnr, ‘Frank’, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson; Mike Myers’s ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’; and ‘The Legend of Shorty’, about the cartel boss Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman

What more natural challenge to set during Dublin Writers Festival than to play Scrabble against The Irish Times?