Air-raid alerts and frontline memoirs: Kyiv hosts literary festival amid war
Visitors flock to Book Arsenal in Ukraine’s capital as wartime writing takes centre stage
Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review – dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars
Woolf’s novel about a headstrong young Edwardian woman takes flight under Tina Gharavi’s direction, with Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders among the ensemble cast
Sajid Javid says backing Liz Truss to lead Tories was his ‘biggest political mistake’
Former chancellor also tells Hay festival ‘good riddance’ to Tory MPs defecting to Reform
Ian McEwan says pessimism ‘a bigger problem than climate change’
Speaking at Hay festival as UK breaks May heat record, author says optimism is a ‘moral duty’
The Birthday Party review – grimly compulsive unhappy occasion in deepest France
Cannes film festival: This could be better paced but the crisis which descends on an up-against-it dairy farm is delivered by some very memorable goons
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean review – a dashing retrospective for a cinematic titan
Cannes film festival: Barnaby Thompson’s documentary on the great British director is an exhilarating delve into the ebb and flow of Lean’s peerless career and sometimes complex personal life – with a grand cast of talking heads
Clarissa review – Sophie Okonedo mesmeric as Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway decamps to Nigeria
Cannes film festival: Commanding performances and a great musical score underpin this seductive drama about regret, memory and young love
Propeller One-Way Night Coach review – John Travolta family plane fantasy is a short-haul joyride
Travolta directs and narrates this 60-minute adaptation of his own short story about a boy who dreams of being a pilot
All of a Sudden review – care home drama is tender, meditative and a little too precious for its own good
Cannes film festival: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ocean-hopping treatise on love and mortality is undeniably beautiful – but it works best in its quieter, compassionate moments rather than the flurries of self-conscious solemnity
Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return
Cannes film festival: Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Hüller
After collapse and controversy, Adelaide writers’ week has a new director: ‘I don’t envy anyone in this position’
Rosemarie Milsom, who formed and runs Newcastle writers festival, will take over from Louise Adler after the literary festival imploded over invitation to Randa Abdel-Fattah
Gillian Anderson and Cara Delevingne to hit Cannes as auteur heavyweights dominate festival lineup
The 79th edition of the film festival will see work by Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda and László Nemes considered for the coveted Palme d’Or
Gisèle Pelicot and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe among Hay Festival 2026 speakers
The line-up for this year’s festival includes Emma Thompson, Malala Yousafzai, Ian McEwan and other prominent authors and figures
Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott
Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’
A Prayer for the Dying review – pestilent western feels like a short stretched too long
Johnny Flynn and John C Reilly offer casting heft, but this moody, technically sound tale of an unfolding epidemic in 1870s Wisconsin lacks emotional substance