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  • From the king's pen

    Sixty years after Robert Penn Warren's study of class and corruption in the American Deep South was first published, All the King's Men remains the definitive American political novel, writes Eileen Battersby p
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  • New awards, new writing

    OnTheTown: 'I don't know how many books I read, I can just tell you what height the piles were in my study," laughed author Glenn Patterson, gesturing at an imaginary tower of volumes in front of him. p

  • Great expectations for arts funding

    ArtScape:   As Budget day approaches, minds and strategies at the Arts Council are focused on the case to be made for a further substantial increase in Exchequer funding for the arts. p
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  • Organic seeds slow to grow

    Why is Ireland still playing catch-up with the rest of Europe on organic farming, asks Sylvia Thompson. p

  • Leaving Venice, come hell or high water

    Another Life:   There is probably no good day for leaving Venice, but the first rain-clouds in a week and first lappings of wayward winter tides - the acqua alta - across the city's quays and door-sills seemed to make it a bit easier. p

  • Horizons

    When the Tiger is gone: After the Boom: How Energy Efficiency Will Save the Irish Economy from Recession , is the provocative title of a presentation by Amárach Consulting chief executive, Gerard O'Neill, on Thursday next. p

  • Eye on Nature

    Readers' observations on nature p
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  • The fiction magician

    Short Stories: The doyenne of the story mixes memoir, genealogy and fiction to magnificent effect. p

  • A peek into Browning's freakshow

    Film: This collection of essays exhaustively details the bizarre and often alarming themes that obsessed one of the US's strangest, most secretive film-makers. When he died in 1962, Tod Browning left the world no letters or diaries. p

  • A novel approach to memory

    Memoir: At one point in this book a character declares that travel is a good thing, that it broadens the mind and that "when you go away and come back you see things in a different light". Going away and returning forces us to see what we know - or what we think we know - in a totally different way. p

  • A school of scandal

    Memoir: Peter Tyrrell, a former resident of Letterfrack industrial school (1924-32), committed suicide by setting fire to himself on Hampstead Heath in 1967. Ten years earlier, Tyrrell had launched a campaign which he hoped would draw attention to institutional abuse, but his letters to government ministers, the media, bishops, and Brothers were largely ignored. p

  • Tracing the Teflon Taoiseach

    Politics: Martyn Turner's cartoons in The Irish Times have been an essential part of the commentary on Irish politics over the past three decades. To turn out such funny, pointed and politically astute work day in day out is nothing short of genius. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, what is a cartoon worth? In the deft hands of Turner, many more. p

  • Land of the lost

    Fiction: For her fourth novel in two years, Cecelia Ahern has chosen a challenging theme: the lack of personal identity for non-famous nobodies in a celebrity-focused world. Each of us, famous or not, forms an identity by recounting - to ourselves or to a willing listener - an internal narrative of our own particular life. p

  • At the heart of the inferno

    Memoir: The reader is spared nothing in a bold and brilliant record of the worst years of the Troubles. p

  • Ponderous odyssey of the damned

    Fiction: It is over. Nothing remains. Dead bodies, dead trees, an empty sky, a deserted landscape. A man wakes and reaches out to the sleeping child beside him. "Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. p

  • A modern Virgil to guide us

    Memoir: In his revealing memoir a plain-speaking art critic once again tells it like it is. p

  • When the devil wore Donegal tweed

    Fiction : 'John, you know when Mother was young she was hired out at Allen's over at Rushey. Well what you don't know is that she had a baby. Allen was the father. Then she was taken from Allen's and Father married her. It was very hard for Mother, John. She had a baby every year after that." p

  • O'Faolain lands top French prize

    Loose Leaves: Nuala O'Faolain was given the royal treatment earlier this week in Paris when she won the Prix Femina Étranger for the French edition of her book The Story of Chicago May . p

  • Paperbacks

    Irish Times writers review the latest paperbacks p
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  • End of the Royle line

    TVReview:  'Spell funeral, Denise." "F-U-N . . ." "Stop there." p

  • Big Apple bargains in the mid-term break

    RadioReview:   The standardised school year kicked in as usual on RTÉ with several top presenters invoking the kiddie-friendly part of their massive contracts and legging it for the mid-term break. p

  • Stand up and be counted

    PresentTense:   A truce has been declared, the hatchet buried, our beef has been cooked. The civil war of the David O'Dohertys (or O'Doherties as I prefer to pluralise us) is over. p
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