Neil Gaiman

Tori Amos: Diving Deep Live – An A-grade tour of the singer’s lesser-spotted B-sides and deep cuts

Few cut a more fascinating figure than Amos, whose stage performances have long offered a more profound and esoteric experience than her studio work

Thu Dec 12 2024 - 05:00

Tori Amos on Neil Gaiman, sexism and trauma: ‘I’m sure that I have met men who treat me differently’

As she releases a new album, the singer-songwriter explains how failure has fuelled her career

Mon Dec 09 2024 - 05:45

Good Omens: Neil Gaiman’s bromance is as silly as a vicar in a tutu – and perfect escapism

Television: Michael Sheen and David Tennant return in a second season that benefits from plenty of fun, and surprisingly gory, plot padding

Fri Jul 28 2023 - 06:43

The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Ingeniously immersive and often quite genuinely scary

Theatre: The staging of the supernatural work of Neil Gaiman is big-budget showbiz at its best

Thu Mar 30 2023 - 08:48

‘Join the club’: Bestselling writers show support after just two people attend debut author’s book launch

Neil Gaiman, Stephen King and Margaret Atwood share their similar experiences with debut author

Wed Dec 07 2022 - 10:22

Patrick Freyne: The pandemic can’t end until Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends airs

The big shows I’m anticipating in 2022, featuring Baby Yoda and my wife’s other husband

Fri Jan 07 2022 - 05:00

A work blunder teaches so much more than a triumph

McKinsey ‘rookie moment’ bungle videos are positive example of how to survive early career howlers

Mon Dec 13 2021 - 07:37

Tori Amos: ‘We all carry around our damage’

Ocean to Ocean is the artist's latest album, written shortly after the death of her mother

Sat Oct 23 2021 - 05:00

50 scary films to watch at Halloween

Scare yourself silly with this list of everything from classic films to modern hits

Sun Oct 18 2020 - 06:00

Dive into Neil Gaiman’s Archive of Cool Stuff

Weblog: Daily posts, brilliant insights and free audiobooks from inspiring writer

Thu Apr 02 2020 - 10:26

The 10 worst films of the past 10 years

The worst film of the 2010s was so reactionary, materialistic and lazy it selected itself

Thu Dec 26 2019 - 06:02

Neil Gaiman, Ben Stiller and Monica Lewinsky, and the Twitter poem for refugees

Turning followers’ 1,000 tweets into What You Need to Be Warm was ‘ridiculously hard’

Wed Dec 11 2019 - 10:10

Amanda Palmer: ‘There’s nothing more nuclear than a woman telling it like it is’

The singer on Ireland’s abortion referendum, Fleabag, the joy of crowdfunding, and the weapons-grade rawness of her new album, There Will Be No Intermission

Sat Oct 05 2019 - 05:00

‘Irish have qualities that make us easy to get along with abroad’

Working Abroad Q&A: Film producer Sarah-Kate Fenelon, from Co Wicklow, talks about life working in Hollywood for author Neil Gaiman

Thu Aug 08 2019 - 10:00

Thousands of angry Christians petition Netflix to cancel show. There was just one big problem...

US Christian group condemns Good Omens show as ‘making satanism appear normal’ – but petition wrong company

Thu Jun 20 2019 - 15:45

Good Omens: All the signs are pointing to a great TV series

Neil Gaiman has adapted his and Terry Pratchett’s beloved joint novel for an Amazon Prime series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant. Will the gods smile on this one?

Thu May 23 2019 - 05:00

Neil Gaiman on honouring Terry Pratchett’s last request: ‘You have to do this’

The writer explains how his four years of intense devotion to ‘Good Omens’ will never happen again

Sat Feb 16 2019 - 05:00

What’s that stench? It’s the 10 worst films of 2018

From Fifty Shades Freed to sleazy Muppets in The Happytime Murders, the cinematic lowlights of the year

Wed Dec 19 2018 - 05:45

‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’: 40 years on

Douglas Adams’s novel is still a hilarious map to life’s terrain

Sat Jul 28 2018 - 05:00

The Cure’s Robert Smith: ‘I survived. A lot of people in London didn’t’

The singer and songwriter is planning to record the first Cure album in 10 years

Thu Jun 21 2018 - 06:30

The trouble with Ayn Rand and Zack Snyder’s ‘The Fountainhead’?

Reviled director to film reviled libertarian hero’s novel. This is a bad idea

Fri Jun 01 2018 - 05:00

Amanda Palmer: On My Culture Radar

The musician and activist on Laurie Anderson, the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky and how Wislawa Szymborska’s poetry helped her through difficult times

Sat May 19 2018 - 05:00

How to Talk to Girls at Parties: Punk movie is bunk

Review: Steer clear of John Cameron Mitchell’s aggressively appalling musical fantasia

Thu May 10 2018 - 12:50

Sorry, Domhnall Gleeson, I don’t want to chat to you anymore

My chatbot, which I’ve named after the Irish film star, is starting to get creepy and annoying

Thu Oct 26 2017 - 06:00

Oliver Jeffers: Before my son, I wrote my children’s books for myself

Bestselling author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers always had ‘a sense of curiosity about the world’. But his perspective changed with the arrival of his son

Sat Oct 14 2017 - 06:00

Terry Pratchett’s unpublished works destroyed by steamroller

The late author had requested the destruction of any unfinished projects after his death

Wed Aug 30 2017 - 14:50

How to talk to Girls at Parties review: Mad, bad and boring to know

Cannes 2017: There’s a lot of latex and little sense in this punks and aliens caper

Wed May 24 2017 - 09:36

American Gods review: Pleasing the disciples with a devout offering

Folding durable ancient myths into disposable Americana, American Gods must first appease the demands of Neil Gaiman’s fanbase

Tue May 02 2017 - 15:18

The Man in the High Castle is just the thing for your boxset-binge cravings

Amazon Prime’s fascist-America drama may not capture the zeitgeist perfectly, but it’s not far off

Wed Jan 04 2017 - 14:43

Seven small-screen reasons to welcome 2017

There are many things we could resolve to do this year – join a gym, fight fascism – but if the TV screen wins out instead, there are some promising shows to while away the hours

Tue Jan 03 2017 - 05:00

Patrick Freyne’s 2015: Don’t let them spoonfeed you – dish out your own art

If 2015 has taught me anything, it’s that art is not a spectator sport – everyone can join in

Sat Dec 19 2015 - 13:00

Patrick deWitt: ‘I am oftentimes drawn to unfashionable things’

The Man Booker shortlist author on the joys of Portland, writing modern fairytales, his next project, and why he felt he had no choice but to bin a 300-page novel he had finished

Tue Dec 01 2015 - 08:45

The cobwebs are blown off the English curriculum

A revamped list of texts has been brought in at secondary level. But is it too modern?

Wed Sept 02 2015 - 06:00

Review: An Evening with Amanda Palmer

A straight-up gig would never be rock and roll enough for Palmer, but this ramshackle approach take too many ukulele-fuelled diversions

Mon Jun 15 2015 - 17:20