Based on the best selling novel by Dave Eggers, The Circle sees Tom Hanks play an iconoclastic tech CEO who believes that transparency is the key to unlocking human potential.

The Indian-American novelist Akhil Sharma has won the International Dublin Literary Award for his second novel, Family Life. He is the 21st winner of the €100,000 prize.

It may have changed name from the Impac, but the International Dublin Literary Award is still one of the most lucrative in the world. Alan O’Riordan reveals the shortlist for the €100,000 prize

Brought up as the eldest of seven, Clár was always interested in words. 

Damn you, internet! Sometimes I don’t know whether what you’re giving me is real or whether it’s being dreamed up by two stoned teenagers chained to a PC in someone’s basement, wondering whether to get the Domino’s deep-dish spectacular or not...

I read The Circle this week, Dave Eggers’ novel about an internet company that has taken over Google, Facebook, Twitter and the rest.

Griffin was first rejected by a publisher at age 11. She turned to poetry; her first collection came out in 2011, when she was taking a Masters in Creative Writing.

Set amidst the rolling hills of Midwest America, Gus van Sant’s Promised Land (15A) stars Matt Damon as Steve Butler, a salesman who works for a corporation intent on buying up failing farmland in order to drill for gas.

Celebrated author, playwright and commentator Gore Vidal has died at the age of 86, his nephew said today.

Matt Damon is to make his directorial movie debut, teaming up with John Krasinski to write the script for the as-yet-untitled drama, which they will both also star in.

Laura Jane Cassidy is just 24. She’s about to publish a book for teens — and she was just 20 when she started the project.

ON the basis that any newspaper article benefits from an infusion of sub-Saharan creation myth, we thought we’d give the place a bit of a shake-up this morning.