Historian pulls out of Chalke Valley festival over lack of diversity
Rebecca Rideal says she is pulling out of UK’s leading history event after learning that programme of 148 speakers has only 32 women and one person of colour
Selfies, Sophocles and Stephen Fry – the week at Hay festival
Mythical magic from Colm Tóibín, some illuminating medieval manuscripts and a game Neil Gaiman … this week in Hay-on-Wye
Chris Kraus: I Love Dick was written ‘in a delirium’
Published in 1997, I Love Dick was so far ahead of its time that only now does it seem to be approaching its apex. Chris Kraus discusses it with Elle Hunt
Stephen Fry: Facebook and other platforms should be classed as publishers
Speaking at Hay festival, writer accuses ‘aggregating news agencies’ of not taking responsibility for their content
Thirty years on, Hay festival is still thinking, talking and laughing
It was conceived as an excuse to ‘have a few mates round’, but now the Hay literary festival is embracing a much wider vision and is a global event
Good Time review – Robert Pattinson sticks up for his brother in chaotic heist movie
Pattinson turns in a strong performance as a career crim in the Safdie brothers’ exciting, if sometimes bewildering take on Elmore Leonard-style crime dramas
The Beguiled review – Sofia Coppola contrives hilariously fraught feminist psychodrama
Colin Farrell plays a wounded soldier who throws himself on the mercy of a ladies’ seminary during the American civil war – and sets them all of a decorous flutter
How to Talk to Girls at Parties review – Nicole Kidman goes peroxide punk in messy sci-fi caper
Kidman channels Toyah Wilcox – not to mention Dick Van Dyke – as part of an extravagantly muddled adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s aliens v punks short story
The King review – a wild ride through doomed America in Elvis Presley’s car
The story of the King’s old Rolls Royce soon gives way to an exploration of fame, power, race and everything else in Eugene Jarecki’s dizzying documentary
The 10 best things to do this week: Annie, Hay festival and Killology
Miranda Hart plays a spiteful orphanage owner, literature’s finest minds meet in Wales and the Royal Court parses out an apocalyptic future
Wonderstruck review – gooey and indulgent YA fantasy fails to inspire awe
Carol director Todd Haynes latest, set in both 1920s and 1970s New York, has nice details but suffers from a glib tone and some preposterous plotting
Amber Heard sues London Fields producer over body-double sex scenes
The actor accuses the film’s producer of secretly filming ‘pornographic’ scenes with a body double that she claims violated a nudity clause in her contract
Return to Montauk review – beached affair takes time to connect
Past lovers Nina Hoss and Stellan Skarsgård border on the unlovable in this slow-paced drama, but Volker Schlöndorff’s film rewards patience for its final twist
The Lost City of Z review: Charlie Hunnam slow-burns down the Amazon, leaving Sienna Miller at home
James Gray’s introspective tale of adventurer Percival Fawcett’s obsession with a lost Amazonian city is a twist on the familiar Conrad jungle narrative
The Young Karl Marx review – intelligent communist bromance
Marx and Engels meet cute in this intense, fervent film about the early development of communism from I Am Not Your Negro director Raoul Peck