Chronicler of contemporary society explains battle for dominance over conflicting values

Clickbait headlines are usually more subtle these days, but their effect may be more insidious

It would be a shame if the National Gallery Aramark controversy failed to prompt debate

News last week that the streamer lost subscribers for the first time in a decade resulted in a €50 billion drop in the company’s v(...)

Move to put Channel 4 up for sale symptomatic of something deeply rotten in British politics

Meta has embraced tactics developed in the money-soaked cesspool of American partisan politics, whipping up fear wherever it can

For years Tommaso Debenedetti has been using Twitter to hoodwink the media with fake stories

Any system of basic income for artists must give them dignity and breathing space

Despite moral imperative to support Ukraine, disinformation is never a one-way street

A production of Into the Woods in Belfast was suspended because of bad audience behaviour

Rosemary Jenkinson's article may have offended some of her fellow writers. So what?

For Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends the crew, like many others, went North

The first in-person Irish Times Theatre Awards since 2019 will be a celebration of resilience

Singer remains an admirable contrarian, but hasn’t troubled the charts in decades

The band’s awareness of their own ridiculousness has long been part of their appeal

Hugh Linehan: The disgraced journalist’s book Stolen Focus is light on scientific rigour

A scornful profile of Succession’s Jeremy Strong reminds personality is built on flaws

Streaming opens up new worlds to us but it’s hard not to feel something has been lost

Writers and artists were keen to pay court when the politician was in his pomp

Streaming service’s new top 10 lists offer some insight but should we really care?

Why has the capital been so ill-served by its officials? A reprinted book may hold a clue

From The Sopranos to Succession, good title sequences set the TV tone in a way little else can

Netflix’s dystopian drama series shows originality can still trump franchise power

The 92-year-old author on US foreign policy and Ireland’s immoral tax regime

National Campaign for the Arts has a long Budget 2022 wishlist - it will be disappointed

With two major new stage productions, and a Joel Coen film, it’s the Bard’s biggest hit

The Constitution is clear: the country’s name is Éire in Irish or Ireland in English

People like colourised photos but experts worry about tampering with history

Catherine Martin should take note on why attempts to change licensing laws failed before

Perhaps you shouldn't believe everything you've heard about disinformation

It’s not hard to draw a line from Armageddon to al-Qaeda to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Musicians to return to the stage for the first time in 18 months as Ireland’s venues reopen

More people can mix in a pub than are permitted to sit distanced in large venues

Regulations on balance in current affairs can't reflect complexity of documentaries and dramas

Festival director Willie White emphasises the positives as audiences return to theatres

Numbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measures

There’s a rich choice of creative writing courses, but precious few places to learn the basics

Ideological narrowness of 30th anniversary line-up emphasises contradictions of museum

Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969 featured a line-up of hugely influential black artists

Hugh Linehan: There may be times when the lessons of the genocidal past are worth recalling, but not this time Mattie McGrath

Hugh Linehan: Our conservative approach to pandemic challenges may increasingly cause issues

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on why Biden can succeed where Obama did not

A recent Iveagh Gardens gig looked nice but gave no data for returning to normality

Grande Dame of DC Dowd to give insight to Biden’s America and the politics-obsessed town

If the producer is Irish, does that make it an Irish film?

The perception that 2020 was unprecedented is inaccurate, says Niall Ferguson

Hugh Linehan: Watch out for Dublin Bus and its wince-making new colour scheme

A British director, an Irish cast and an African-American soundtrack – but it worked

Print editions are still part of the industry’s survival – but who knows for how long

Hugh Linehan: Pilot events in UK are promising but will Government underwrite the risk?

Does it matter whether online performances are recorded or live?

Hugh Linehan: ITV’s political editor inadvertently raised a meaningful question about the North

Hugh Linehan: The City Arts Centre was once a reservoir for the quirky, the creative, the insurgent

It seems like madness, but being in a Zoom choir with my work colleagues is quite uplifting

Hugh Linehan: Why should we classify DVDs and cinema releases but not Netflix?

Hugh Linehan: Pandemic has helped highlight existing shifts in cultural production

Perhaps the sacred and the secular are not as diametrically opposed as is often assumed

Linking performance of articles to journalists’ salaries seems unfair, but it is not a new idea

Time to bid adieu, not au revoir, to the Looney Tunes character

Hugh Linehan: The era of moguls has run its course; European conglomerates have arrived

Bryan Fogel discusses his ‘true-crime documentary’ The Dissident about the journalist

Who is the ‘we’ that is invoked in lifestyle, entertainment and opinion pieces?

Hugh Linehan: Suddenly, 2021 feels a lot like 2012 all over again

Hugh Linehan: Outlets have been accused of excessive coverage and parroting the official line

Films, books and television often get the future right, writes Hugh Linehan

The new presenters’ life experiences are more in tune with those of listeners

Streaming giant Netflix has spent gazillions making movies, with little of quality to show for it

Hugh Linehan: The New Year’s Eve rape joke was less satire than a failure of imagination

Nominations for each categories in annual awards usually announced in early January

It's all over bar the kicking and screaming, but who's going to make the spin-off?

George Clooney’s In the Midnight Sky and Jamie Foxx’s turn in Soul will have us curling up together on the couch again

The continual threat of lockdown makes planning very difficult for the arts

A report from the taskforce for the arts has a Christmas wish-list of recommendations

The broadcaster tends towards mediocrity and self-satisfaction, not humour

America at the Crossroads: The two presidential candidates have a combined age of 151

This week, Cardi B annoyed Azerbaijan, and Jon Bon Jovi irked the Orange Order

That is a nightmare for anyone trying to put on an event such as a festival

Critics expect US president to hate actor’s take in The Comey Rule. But he did it anyway

Next budget needs to include huge supports for a sector brought to its knees by Covid-19

Everyone is listening to podcasts but their viability is threatened by lack of listener data

The notion of a re-set world is thought-provoking. Change, good and bad, is coming

Yet she appears not to have been fully involved in agreeing new restrictions on gatherings

The phased timetable has outlived its usefulness, but the new approach has hazards

DruidGregory begins a 15-venue tour at Coole Park, the writer’s Galway estate, next month

Does weak UK regulation allow influential think tanks to peddle the interests of anonymous donors?

We should support Laura Whitmore’s freedom to appear on whatever podcast she pleases

Despite Covid-19, key elements from the summer line-up are ready for an autumn showing

It would be regrettable if we found new reasons in the 21st century to destroy what’s left of old Dublin

Right now, someone, somewhere is surely working on the first great work of Covid art

It has often seemed as if company wanted to accelerate demise of print so it could become purely digital as soon as possible

In the midst of a vast social, political and cultural experiment, we need all the data we can get

The writer Masha Gessen sees parallels between the US and Russia under Putin

The recovery of the sector may take until 2025 if nothing is done to mitigate the impacts of Covid-19

Expert advisory group urges Government to act immediately to avoid slow, four-year recovery

Wexford Opera Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival also announce alternative events

Issues around race and social justice are increasingly important in Ireland too

As the country reopens, cultural events will be last to come back – if they come back at all

Inevitably and rightly, the TV series is softer in tone than Sally Rooney’s novel

A story about Philip Roth leering at ‘colleens’ in Dublin exposes a Neanderthal attitude

Refunds now available but ticket holders advised they can be retained for use in 2021