Legendary sports writer Frank Deford spent five decades as one of the defining voices of Sports Illustrated.

Katie Roiphe is a well-known essayist often appearing in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and other literary journals. 

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

Today is World Refugee Day, and aid agency GOAL have released six facts that you probably do not know about refugees.

AMERICAN academic Katie Roiphe has a track record of tackling tricky subjects, such as pay inequality and sexual politics. 

WE have, since Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalysis as one of the most powerful tools in self-realisation just over a century ago, myriad ways of trying to make ourselves comfortable in our skins, of trying to make ourselves fit into the world we find ourselves flickering through like a fairy light blinking on a Christmas tree. 

As the city prepares to host the 60th Eurovision Song Contest, Arlene Harris samples the delights of Vienna.

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The heinous acts committed by Islamic State are done to make it look more powerful and impenetrable. But they can also unite its enemies and detractors, writes Arie W Kruglanski.

Alchemy and transformation lie at the heart of Gavin Hogg’s work, writes Orlagh Ní Arrachtáin.

The Pope has defended the Church’s record on tackling the sexual abuse of children by priests, saying “no-one else has done more” to root out paedophilia.

Grown Ups 2 Leads Razzies Nominees

MORALITY is the glue which binds society together. Without each individual’s sense of fair play, empathy and abhorrence of unnecessary violence, we could never co-operate. But when and how did these propensities develop?

Black Vodka & Other Stories

Richard Fitzpatrick picks his top summer reads — don’t go to the beach without one of these in your bag.

His plays are renowned, but a new book unravels the mystery of the man, says Rita de Brun

The Small Hours

Many readers will guess that picking Lance Armstrong as Sportsman of the Year must be a juvenile wind-up. Sports Monster of the Century more like.

What I do: Performance/film/drawing/installation.

Mickey Ned O’Sullivan: Attempts to plot downfall of highly-rated Tipperary team.

You’ve heard Sigmund Freud’s line about the Irish being immune to psychoanalysis.

In book format for 244 years, Britannica is downsizing to an internet presence, its hefty print edition no longer viable, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Viggo Mortensen explores the many facets of Sigmund Freud’s character in A Dangerous Method, writes Declan Cashin

“It’s time to play the music / It’s time to light the lights …” The Muppets (G) seem to have been away for a very long time, a fact not lost on Walter (voiced by Peter Linz), a lonely young Muppet who grew up with Gary (Jason Segel) for an older brother.

THE eurozone debt crisis may be as much about the heart as it is about the head — like a jilted lover, markets are just finding it hard to trust again.

AS EXPECTED, mental frailty was exposed ruthlessly in Thurles yesterday.

LUCIAN FREUD, a towering and uncompromising figure in the art world for more than 50 years, has died, his New York-based art dealer said yesterday. He was 88.

Keira Knightley will not star in the new film version of ‘My Fair Lady’.

Alex Ferguson intends to consult the works of great psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud to try and work out what lies behind the legend of ’Rafa’s rant’.

A FEW weeks ago a reader emailed me with a query about the life-cycle of eels.

TRIBUTES were paid to the life’s work of renowned psychiatrist and broadcaster Anthony Clare, who died suddenly over the weekend.

Two more men entered the Big Brother house tonight.

An award winning comedy about Sigmund Freud is to have its Irish premiere in Dublin in line with the 150th anniversary of the birth of the renowned psychiatrist.

A LUCIAN FREUD portrait of a pregnant and naked Kate Moss last night sold for almost £4 million (€6m) at auction.

Two airport cargo handlers have been arrested in New York for allegedly stealing a €1.4m painting by a British artist Lucian Freud.