If the film's great, who cares if it's faithful to the book?

When confronted by the BBC’s noisy, modern version of The Pursuit of Love, harsh reality clashes with a long-held principle and this viewer finds himself fuming

The Six Billion Dollar Man is the reboot industry’s latest offering

When is a reboot not a reboot? When it’s a new version of Frasier starring Kelsey Grammer

John Banville: Novels were never the same after Henry James

James invented the ‘psychological novel’ in The Portrait of a Lady. How could I not follow the fortunes of its heroine?

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Neil Jordan Riviera controversy: Writers don’t control TV

Analysis: It’s not the writer or director, but the ‘showrunner’, who controls TV drama now

Ireland’s other Law Library

The professions of writer and lawyer share lots of similarities so it is perhaps no surprise that so many Irish lawyers venture into fiction. Sarah Gilmartin hears the evidence

Doll and Em: you’ll laugh, you’ll projectile cry

Lifelong friends Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer make their relationship awkward in a new sitcom, the latest comedy to feature people portraying distorted versions of themselves

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The Innocents