The Booksellers: A brilliant browse through New York’s small bookshops

Film Review: This study of independent and antiquarian booksellers speaks volumes

Little Women scene stolen by water bottles spotted in background

Greta Gerwig’s film of Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel features some very modern items

The Irish Times view on Saoirse Ronan: star power

The four-time Oscar nominee is the most successful Irish film actor ever – and she is still only 25

Saoirse Ronan: ‘I can go anywhere. I have a lovely place to come back to’

The 24-year-old Irish actor on Little Women, awards season and her sense of home

Golden Globes 2020: Saoirse Ronan nominated for best actress

Irish actor picks up fifth nod, for Little Women. Andrew Scott named for Fleabag

‘Saoirse Ronan is going to land her fourth Oscar nomination for Little Women’

Online film commentators react enthusiastically to early US screenings

Saoirse Ronan in Little Women: What’s all the fuss about?

Greta Gerwig’s upcoming film is the book’s eighth screen adaptation. So why the excitement?

The Irish woman who became Canada’s first major poet

Isabella Valancy Crawford was one of Canada’s first writers to make a living as a freelancer

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Ethan Hawke: ‘It’s a dance with fire. I saw that with River’s death'

Hawke was a posterboy for generation X actors. But after seeing first hand where his precocious talent could lead, he's become a thoughtful veteran of the Hollywood machine

A bone to pick with Beckett – An Irishman’s Diary about misuse of the word ‘literally’

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.

I’m not in a book club, but if I was . . .

Fiftysomething: The sheer tedium of Gone Girl, ‘the thriller of the year’, will obliterate your critical faculties