JK Rowling and Elon Musk named in Imane Khelif cyberbullying lawsuit
Algerian Olympic champion boxer files criminal complaint in France against X over alleged ‘cyber-harassment'
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Scotland’s hate crime law fiasco offers Ireland a playbook in how not to do it
There was a sense they were making it up as they went along. The same can’t happen here
Children’s books: All kinds of adventures with animals, and a tale about teaming up with a bully to foil a witch
Presenting terrific new works from Jon Agee, Kate Sheehy, Noel Fitzpatrick, Sinéad O’Hart, Katherine Rundell and Patricia Forde
Harry Potter reboot: hate it all you like, it’s going to be bigger than Hagrid
Donald Clarke: Too soon? We are approaching the point where the remake happens before the original is released
Enoch Burke and JK Rowling have the same approach to victimhood
The bestselling children’s author sees herself as a victim. But she gets to put her phone down and walk away
Jennifer O’Connell: The far right’s attempted courtship of Enoch Burke is an odd romance
There’s no evidence he or his family have done anything to encourage it, but Burke has become a hero of the far right
Roald Dahl, JK Rowling and Dr Seuss: Language police to the left, book-banning zealots to the right
Hugh Linehan: If sensitivity readers are willing to bowdlerise an author such as Roald Dahl, what’s going on with first-time writers?
Harry Potter and Sally Rooney among most borrowed library books last year
Children’s titles take up 19 of top 20, as Rooney’s latest novel is most borrowed adult title
Facebook should tighten doxxing rules, says oversight board
Meta should not allow sharing of private residential information, even if it is publicly available
How about a little break from Harry Potter controversies?
Not even the Marvel Cinematic Universe attracts this degree of debate
BAI complaint over JK Rowling ‘transphobia’ accusation upheld
Harry Potter author was referred to as a ‘bigot’ during segment of show on Today FM
Nick Cave criticises cancel culture as ‘bad religion run amuck’
Political correctness has ‘asphyxiating effect on the creative soul of a society’, musician says
JK Rowling says her ex-husband hit her. Why are people trying to silence her?
I stayed silent when I witnessed domestic violence. But we all need to speak out now
JK Rowling under fire by LGBTQ groups over ‘anti-transgender’ tweets
Harry Potter author faces backlash after taking aim at reference to ‘people who menstruate’
A gift from JK Rowling: A 34-part fairy tale, free online for children in lockdown
Harry Potter author serialising The Ickabog months ahead of its publication as a book
100 books by women you have to read
Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – first full trailer revealed
The follow up to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law and atherine Waterston
Harry Potter turns 20, 450 million copies later
Bloomsbury is publishing four new editions of the first book, one for each Hogwarts house
Celebrity rich list 2017: Conor McGregor, Rory McIlroy in top 100
Rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs tops Forbes list with $130m, while Beyoncé is in second place
‘Harry Potter’ prequel stolen in burglary
JK Rowling condemns theft of rare handwritten story following Birmingham raid
JK Rowling assists Dublin man in his search for missing PhD
NUI Maynooth student Jamal Sul trying to find navy taxi where he left laptop last week
Seána Kerslake: the hottest new name in Irish cinema
The actor – aka ‘the Irish Scarlett Johansson’ – is terrific as an angry young woman in A Date for Mad Mary
Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins makes world's richest writers list
Word-of-mouth sensation has made the novelist $10m in the last year, outselling George RR Martin, but still earning a fraction of James Patterson’s $95m
Expecto Patronum! Harry Potter fans summon up their favourite spell
Top 10 spells and what they do – your Harry Potter Book Night cut-out-and-keep / copy-and-paste guide
Cathy Kelly on life, death, crying and pole-dancing
The best-selling novelist talks about the time she briefly outsold JK Rowling and Dan Brown, and how she nearly had her arm ripped off while ‘researching’
Haters gonna hate as young women tackle body image at Dublin workshops
Leadership and body image discussed at Through the Looking Glass workshops
BBC to screen JK Rowling crime novels
Harry Potter writer was unmasked as author of novels by law firm
Write on, sister: 20 great books by women
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction last week announced a list of the top 20 most influential books written by women. We continue our series on female authors, looking at the books as voted for by the public.
JK Rowling’s alter ego does the job and does it well: The Silkworm
Review: the author’s second novel as “Robert Galbraith” is a homage to the golden age of the mystery novel
OCD: it’s like having a bully inside your head
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is suffered by up to 3 per cent of the population. It is often made fun of, but the dark thought processes behind the ‘doubting disease’ can be traumatising, even life-destroying
Lawyer fined for revealing JK Rowling as secret author
Writer furious when partner at law firm revealed her as author of The Cuckoo’s Calling
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