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He who Dares: Marvel star Charlie Cox on moving to Dublin, gangland crime, and perfecting the accent

The Kin and Daredevil star has played alongside greats such as Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, but he says as an actor you never presume you’ve ‘arrived’

Book review: Two Nigerian girls come of age in Dazzling’s overreaching jumble of real and otherworldly experiences

British/Nigerian author Chikodili Emelumadu’s debut magic realist novel weaves a vague and uneven tapestry whose threads the reader must work hard to pick up and decode

Date with destiny: how young people are falling back in love with real-life relationships

Apps have their uses, but many singletons in search of a partner are putting down their phones and picking up creative new methods that return to the old concept of meeting in person

Niamh Walsh: ‘The show I’m determined at all costs to get on is Game of Thrones’

Often cast as the ‘gobby woman’, actor Niamh Walsh is attracted to playing strong and complex female characters, with her latest role as Jenny in Smother, RTÉ’s west of Ireland thriller involving some complicated family relationships

In Ordinary Time: A tale of emigration and return haunted by ghosts of personal and ancestral pain

mysticism underlying the story – or the Jungian approach

Voting with their feet: the Brazilians in Ireland on why they’ve made it their home

With about 70,000 Brazilians estimated to be living in Ireland, the Business Post Magazine talked to some of them about why they came and how they find living here

‘Meeting Barbra Streisand is as golden a moment as I ever could have wished for’ – Richard E Grant

Since his wife’s death last year, veteran actor Richard E Grant has done his best to live by her advice of finding ‘a pocketful of happiness’ in each day – as related in his recently published memoir of the same name

Stories from the Tenants Downstairs: Colourful characters juggle personal and shared challenges

Sidik Fofana’s debut short story collection skilfully paints an entertaining impression of eight individual lives within a community

Isaac and the Egg: Poignant yet playful modern-day fable of grief, survival and healing

Bobby Palmer’s absurd, whimsical and inventive tale about coming out of your shell after love and loss is bursting with metaphor

Come Back in September: Intriguing glimpse into a generation of creative intellects

Novelist Darryl Pinckney recalls his friend and mentor Elizabeth Hardwick and her fraternity in 1970s literary New York

On set with the cast of The Wonder, Emma Donoghue’s tale of fasting and famine in 1862

Behind the scenes on a film set in Co Kildare, Emma Donoghue’s 2016 gripping post-Famine gothic novel comes to life

Liberation Day: Short story collection reaches for the absurd in a post-truth, paranoid US

The latest collection of stories by George Saunders is more memorable for its emotional honesty than its experiments in style

Euphoria: Spirited reimagining of Plath’s life shows why the poet’s writing lives on

Elin Cullhed’s fictional account of the poet and novelist’s final year, told in the first person, is more concerned with her enduring art than her tragic death

‘Nobody would notice the publication of Ulysses if it was published tomorrow’ – John Banville

The novelist reflects on life and death, woke culture and ‘craft’ verses ‘art’ novels and wonders whether anyone will buy his new book. The Booker prize winner also also questions the emergence of the youth vote for Sinn Féin

Lessons from the Bench: Memoir does justice to a life spent in Irish courts

She blazed a trail for women in a man’s world and although she had a reputation for fairness, Judge Gillian Hussey wasn’t afraid to mete out prison sentences when necessary

There’s Been A Little Incident: Accomplished debut novel about missing people in every sense

Telling a story ensemble style, from the point of view of many people, is not easy, but Alice Ryan makes it seems so as she recounts the tale of a young woman’s disappearance

Revenge: Hatchet job on Meghan and Harry smacks of colonial arrogance and ignorance

While the book’s assertion that Harry and Meghan have exploited their struggles for personal gain is probably true, Tom Bower’s dismissiveness of problems that are very real are just as hard to stomach as everyone in it

All the world’s a page: How BookTok opened an exciting new chapter for authors

Reviews by ‘BookTokkers’ on TikTok have reached millions and influenced book sales worldwide, but the jury is still out on whether Irish book sales will benefit or suffer from the trend

Emma Donoghue interview: ‘I’m interested in the things that cage people, it makes better stories’

Isolation and seclusion are the recurring themes of the acclaimed Dublin-born author’s new novel Haven, a fictional imagining of the discovery of Skellig Michael by seventh-century monks

Daisy Darker: An ingeniously structured mystery fails to amount to much more

Reading Alice Feeney’s fifth novel feels more like solving an equation or following a game than delving into a story