The mourning after

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

Perhaps you’ve already heard about Jennifer Lawrence’s high-wire performance in Die, My Love, either from admiring film festival reviews or her recent boisterous appearance on Graham Norton. She plays

Ben Stiller has made a film about his parents, who were comedy stars in 1960s USA. But does the film actually say more about him?

SINCE my mum died, it seems the family have been together more than ever. There were well over 140 mourners at the funeral, then we had the Australians here last weekend and today it’s my nephew’s wed

TOM! What are you doing here?” I stopped gazing at the empty space in the centre of the table, to throw myself into my fiancé’s arms. “You’re not supposed to be here until tonight,” I told him. “I dec

The Derry Girls star and his mum embark on the ultimate adventure… More famous faces pair up with their nearest and dearest in a new series of Celebrity Race Across the World, the star version of the