Modern life poses many perplexing questions. Like where is the start of

Modern life poses many perplexing questions. Like where is the start of the Sellotape, and why beige shoes are called nude while not all nude people are beige, writes Suzanne Harrington

Are the Dubs even bored of the Dubs?

Marriages with financial motives in mind have a long history, although they have normally been limited to aristocracies of one kind or another.

Art is a great value way to create a furnished look in a home, writes Des O’Sullivan.

The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes Old Street Publishing Review: Des Breen

Hello and here is the fake news. Well, some of it is fake, and some of it is not. You’ll just have to figure it out – using your emotions. Because that’s what we do now. Who needs facts and experts when we have feelings and social media? asks Suzanne Harrington

You may have thought Irish jokes had been consigned to the unpleasant past, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig adhered to the dictum that ‘every age gets the diseases it deserves’ as translator Will Stone tells JP O’Malley.

Writer Emmanuel Carrére states that ‘things of the soul, the things involving God embarrass me’ but, according to Josephine Fenton, there’s more embarrassment to come ...

Martin Luther shattered the notion of universal or objective truth. ‘I’ was placed at the centre of the cosmos, undermining all hierarchy, writes Gerard Howlin

Last week, giddy after Piggy’s last-minute bacon-saver at Watford, I allowed myself to write hopefully that a “qualification-clinching evening against PSV would cap five days of United hugely cheering us all up”. Sigh. When will I ever learn?

Hanif Kureishi, the English novelist and playwright of Pakistani extraction, is best known for acclaimed work like My Beautiful Laundrette, Intimacy and ‘The Buddha of Suburbia, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1990. Frequently ambitious in terms of subject matter and exploring the boundaries of genre, new work by him is always eagerly anticipated.

There was a time when the great philosophers wrestled with less crucial posers. Stuff like whether the world exists at all outside the mind.

Jumping into a blowhole in Inis Mór is now a popular extreme sport, says Kelly O’Brien.

ARTIST Stephen Brandes’ monumental piece, ‘April 22nd — From the Last Travelogue of Albert Sitzfleisch’, dominates the foyer of the Royal Hibernian Academy. His show, part of the RHA’s autumn programme, is satiric, provocative, charming and unsettling.

JOHN McGuinness is the latest TD to be undone by that highly contagious, and extremely debilitating, political affliction, entitlement.

AN Easter walk over rolling hills sounds lovely, all wide-open space and baby lambs and blue sky.

Many people see Richard Dawkins as an angry, arrogant atheist. But his area of expertise is evolutionary biology, not religion, JP O’Malley discovers

“THERE are no facts, only interpretations,” Friedrich Nietzsche, Joey Barton’s 19th century German philosopher of choice, once insisted.

The Age of Absurdity

BRITON Dr Norman Kerr, in 1884, asked “Is it a sin, a crime, a vice or a disease?”

ACTRESS Jennifer Hudson insisted her latest film will give an unbiased perspective on Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife.

POPE Benedict, in his first book since becoming Pontiff, shares his “personal search for the face of the Lord,” indirectly dismissing popular speculative versions of Christ’s life like The Da Vinci Code.

POPE Benedict explored the profound underlying unity between erotic love and “agape”, a Greek word to describe the unconditional, selfless love taught by Jesus.

IT would appear that, as a nation, we are unhappy. “Yes,” I hear you say, “We know. We’ve seen Rip Off Republic.”

THANK you for printing the fine letter from Liam Sheehan (Irish Examiner, December 8) replying to your columnist Peter Levy's offensive attack on religion (Irish Examiner County, November 23).