After graduating from Columbia, John Berryman headed to Cambridge. ‘Yeats, Yeats, I’m coming! It’s me!’ a later poem has him exclaiming from the ship.

Alex Clark pays tribute to novelist Ali Smith for her generous work on behalf of other literary practitioners, and in particular her championing of first-time authors.

‘Nineteen-Eighty Four’ was first published sixty-six years ago today. Some people seemed to think that Big Brother was based on the unlikely figure of Clement Attlee.

Peter Gay, who fled Berlin with his family as a schoolboy, settling in the United States, was one of the most eminent historians of the Enlightenment. He was also a biographer of Freud and wrote other books on modern German and Austrian history.

John McCourt, Joycean scholar and chronicler of the Trieste years, will be talking about Anthony Trollope’s Irish novels in Books Upstairs, D’Olier Street on Sunday, April 19th.

The Uruguayan writer, journalist and political essayist, who had died aged 74, was an inspirational figure for generations of the Latin American left.

The Nobel prizewinner was the best-known German writer internationally and a major figure in both literature and political controversy over half a century.

Theo Dorgan has been awarded the Irish Times Poetry Now award for his most recent collection, ‘Nine Bright Shiners’.

Happy St David’s Day, and if you’re expecting to let the sun in, see it wipes its feet first.

The worst that can happen to you on a theatre night out in Dublin is that you will be bored. At the end of the sixteenth century in Elizabethan London you ran the risk of being impressed into the army to die fighting the wild Irish.