Spiritualized: ‘We play rock’n’roll, so it’s inherently inept’
Jason Pierce on how rock changed his life and Kurt Vonnegut inspired his latest album
Jason Pierce on how rock changed his life and Kurt Vonnegut inspired his latest album
The Irish Museum of Modern Art celebrates its 30th birthday at a tricky time for museums
Jan Carson on identity, Northern Ireland and her new novel, The Fire Starters
Groundhog Day is considered the best example, but it wasn’t the first – or the last
Hefner died at his Playboy Mansion home from natural causes
Author foresaw the threat to civilisation and the crisis of meaning created by automation
Ralph Steadman spent days trying to find Hunter S Thompson for their first assignment, the landmark article ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved’. The result changed journalism forever
Children should not be misled: real life should be a meritocracy
Brought to Book Q&A: Norwegian author and pianist on where he writes and what he reads
If you’re here for a degree, you’re in the wrong place. College is all about having fun and learning about yourself
Hilary Mantel’s short story The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher caused outrage with its recent publication in the Guardian, but it’s not the first and won’t be last piece of fiction to raise hackles
Review: A brave, humane novel, set in a concentration camp, takes a hard look the attrocities of the second World War
In the first of a series, we recommend some destination-specific titles for summer trips abroad, with help from our correspondents
If you doubt your characters, your readers will doubt them too, so it is important to understand characters’ motivation and make their behaviour and speech convincing
‘If there is a Hell being prepared for me, it will be a dinner party. But I’d like to be in a bar, late at night in New York, with Colm Toibin, Patti Smith, Dickens, St John of the Cross, Toni Morrison, Keats and Emily Bronte, with her brother Branwell leading the singsong while arm-wrestling’
Opinion: It is morally indefensible not to engage with the defining crisis of the human race and the planet we inhabit
Being in college means being in the know about all things music, art, film, food and politics, so here’s a cheatsheet to start you off
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices