Stormzy and Tracey Emin join Hay festival 2023 lineup
The UK’s best-known literary festival has a new CEO and promises ‘11 days of different’ as it unveils its full lineup featuring Richard Osman, Dua Lipa, Margaret Atwood and more
Hay festival to hold inaugural Eurovision book contest
Submissions will be made by the public as books festival parters with famed music event for a literary showdown
Stormzy’s #Merky Books launches literature festival to ‘inspire young creatives’
The grime star said he was ‘proud’ to offer the two-day event headlined by Wretch 32, John Agard and Malorie Blackman
First UK festival for east and south-east Asian writing announced
The ESEA Lit Fest promises a ‘a joyful, thought-provoking celebration of ESEA culture that’s open to all people’
‘Something for everybody’: Dua Lipa joins Margaret Atwood on Hay festival 2023 lineup
Pop star and Booker prize winner will both appear at the literary festival in Wales next year along with rock duo the Proclaimers and poet laureate Simon Armitage
White Noise review – Don DeLillo adaptation is a blackly comic blast
DeLillo’s novel of campus larks and eco dread has long been ogled by Hollywood. Now it gets an elegant, droll treatment from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig
‘You might as well be on the moon’: the authors taking residence in Derek Jarman’s home
Deborah Levy and Juno Dawson are among the writers and artists who have stayed at the film-maker’s cottage in Dungeness. On a rare tour of the property, Laura Barton hears how the project came about
Living review – Bill Nighy tackles life and death in exquisitely sad drama
A gentle and poignant Kazuo Ishiguro-scripted remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru about a man dealing with a terminal diagnosis
The best theatre to stream this month: The Book of Dust, Four Quartets and the start of panto season
Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Alan Ayckbourn’s 87th play, live performance from Ukraine and a concert of lost showtunes
‘Hope matters’: Ukrainian and international authors on why literature is important in times of conflict
Ten writers appearing at the Lviv BookForum, run this year in partnership with the Hay festival, discuss why we need books more than ever
Emma Thompson, Daniel Craig, Harry Styles: London film festival brings out the big guns
Opening on Wednesday, this year’s festival will host 164 feature films, from Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical to Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Matilda the Musical kicks off the London film festival as Netflix banks on Roald Dahl
The rights to Dahl’s work has been the streaming service’s most expensive content deal to date, so Matthew Warchus’s new film needs to work its magic
Michael Dawson obituary
Other lives: Arts administrator who founded the Ilkley Literature festival in 1973
Catherine Called Birdy review – Lena Dunham’s delightful medieval romp
The Girls creator handles an adaptation of Karen Cushman’s much-loved novel with wit and creativity
Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman among authors signed up for Ukrainian book festival
Lviv BookForum is partnering with Hay festival for a programme of in-person and online events, which will be streamed free from 6-9 October