Pokot (Spoor) review – Miss Marple meets Angela Carter in the trackless Polish forest

Agnieszka Holland’s new film is a mix of forensic crime story and magical realist fairy tale that, adapted from Olga Tokarczuk’s novel, doesn’t always hang together

Rebel in the Rye review – JD Salinger drama catches attention but sinks into cliche

Nicholas Hoult plays the author in a watchable but shallow take on creativity and the process of writing a classic

I tried moving to the country. Now I spend the savings travelling to Sydney

In Hobart at the Mona Foma festival, I met a lot of people who had moved from Sydney or Melbourne because the houses are cheaper. But where are the jobs?

Who threw a better party: David Walsh or the Great Gatsby?

Mona Foma promised a Gatsby-style weekend, so we put it to the test: how does the festival stack up against the parties in F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic book?

Michaela McGuire will be new artistic director of Sydney Writers’ festival

McGuire, now director of Emerging Writers’ festival, will replace Jemma Birrell, who has been at the helm since 2012

Patrick Gale: why I started a new literature festival for shy writers

Knowing that novelists tend towards the shy and solitary end of the personality spectrum, I tailored the North Cornish book festival to their needs

Read it and bleep: is virtual reality the future of storytelling?

The inaugural Future of Storytelling festival afforded a glimpse at a new era of narrative collaboration. Are notions like reader, author and page a thing of the past?

Their Finest review – Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy struggle with a duff script in wartime drama

An Education director Lone Scherfig goes period again with this account of British women on the home front during the Blitz – but it’s all a bit predictable

The Limehouse Golem review – an upturned Victorian murder mystery

Lurid beheadings aside, this unlikely feminist Jack the Ripper-esque thriller cleverly unpicks late-Victorian London’s social strictures

As Lionel Shriver made light of identity, I had no choice but to walk out on her

Lionel Shriver’s keynote address at the Brisbane writers festival was a poisoned package wrapped up in arrogance and delivered with condescension

Tom Ford on Nocturnal Animals: ‘Believe it or not, I’m not just about style’

The fashion director turned auteur explained the thinking behind the most attention-grabbing sequences in his new film, at its gala screening in Venice

Alicia Vikander on pregnancy: ‘Half the women in the audience will be thinking: she doesn’t know what it’s like’

The Oscar-winner spoke at the premiere of The Light Between Oceans about co-star Michael Fassbender, and the challenges of playing a pregnant woman and having a family

The bigger they come: how to film an ‘unfilmable’ book

Can Philip Roth’s epic novel American Pastoral work as a film? Screenwriter Hossein Amini, who has taken on two ‘impossible novels’, reveals the secret to cracking the classics

‘90% of YA is crap’: the debate that dominated the Edinburgh book festival

Tempers flare, but readers continue to queue, as authors struggle to explain what is special about young adult fiction

Venice 2016: Terrence Malick and Tom Ford set for red carpet in bumper year

Premieres of new films from Ford, Malick and Mel Gibson join highly-anticipated Michael Fassbender/Alicia Vikander romance and Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy on the Lido