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Dalkey Book Festival a delicious cocktail of politics and culture
Eclectic line-up of speakers tackled Turkey, Brexit, Trump and Donna Summer
Gladwell at tipping point over $400m Harvard donation
Given that Harvard is already sitting on a $36.4bn endowment the world’s richest university isn’t exactly cash-strapped
Jim Carroll: 10 takeaways from SXSW
From artificial intelligence to Generation Z, the Texan media festival has become a conference of everything
Al Gore calls on SXSW to turn its focus on climate change
More than 70,000 expected in Austin, Texas as annual showcase begins
Breda O’Brien: Junior Cert debate conceals a bigger problem about education
Should education be about creating a compliant workforce or good citizens?
Hachette wants to turn Twitter into a bookstore
Publisher is testing whether a tweet from an author can directly trigger a sale
Former NFL players revolt against pill-popping ‘no pain, no gain’ culture
Powerful league under pressure from class action lawsuit and DEA investigation
Issues and questions of the week: Are the days of the book numbered?
Should Amazon’s latest attempt to dominate the ebook market make us fear for the written word?
Cody and O’Shea’s secret is there is no secret
Great coaches don’t pretend they always know what they are doing: they just do it
Publishers way behind plot in book business
Opinion: authors should back Amazon in the battle with Hachette
Adam Smith can teach us a lot about succeeding in sports
It is no surprise the World Cup winners are selected from Germany’s 80m population
Hollywood’s best friend at the box office just might be an algorithm
Epagogix claims it can help film studios find out whether they have a hit or a miss on their hands before production starts
Lame criticism’s happy talk is the enemy of truth
While intellectuals can be kind and nice, their job is to expose mediocrity
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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