Olivia Cole

A life among movie stars can damage your health

28 June 2025 9:00 am

So Dustin Hoffman tells the teenage Matthew Specktor as they share cigarette breaks at CAA, the Los Angeles talent agency they both frequent

Seeking forgiveness for gluttony, sloth and other deadly sins

30 November 2024 9:00 am

The neurologist Guy Leschziner explores the medical conditions that might underlie extremes of human behaviour in a fascinating study that combines biology and psychology

Unrecorded lives: Tell Me Everything, by Elizabeth Strout, reviewed

21 September 2024 9:00 am

The pandemic’s aftershocks are still felt in Crosby, as Strout’s best-loved characters, Olive, Lucy, Jim and Bob, reminisce about people they have known, imbuing their lives with meaning

Old mill boards and sea-green slates: Yeats’s tower

Galway

24 January 2015 9:00 am

The Go Galway bus from Dublin sounds an unlikely pleasure, but it is both comfortable and punctual. There is free…

‘Dabbling’ in poetry

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Olivia Cole talks to Paul Muldoon about the extraordinary buzz that writing gives him