Innocence of Memories review – Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul rendered strange and beautiful
British film-maker Grant Gee has got together with Turkey’s Nobel prize-winning novelist, and the result is a mesmerising, original meditation on love and the city
Danny Boyle confirms Trainspotting sequel at Telluride film festival
Promoting new movie Steve Jobs, the director says followup to 1996 tale of Edinburgh junkies will be his next project
The Danish Girl review – Eddie Redmayne’s swan neck is best thing in pain-free transgender melodrama
The story of Danish gender reassignment pioneer Einar Wegener and her transformation into Lili Elbe becomes a handsome but over-tasteful film in director Tom Hooper’s hands
Room review: Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay escape confining adaptation
Director Lenny Abrahamson seems uncertain of how to translate Emma Donoghue’s novel to the big screen – but his cast appear more confident
Beasts of No Nation brings Netflix to Venice with beauty and horror
Cary Fukunaga’s violent film about child soldiers in Africa impresses festival audiences despite its controversial backing from video on demand service
Ai Weiwei gives first public talk since 2011 – and becomes a selfie Santa Claus
The dissident Chinese artist wades in on the migration crisis, state censorship and dropping his drawers on Instagram at the Berlin literature festival
Literary groups demand a say over PM’s delayed Book Council of Australia plan
Melbourne and Brisbane writers’ festivals among signatories demanding clarity over Book Council of Australia, as announced by Tony Abbot in December
Cracking the code: how patterns make you more mindful
Their cult blog Patternity reveals the hidden geometry in everything from galaxies to flamingos. But how can looking an manhole covers make you more mindful? Pattern-obsessives Anna Murray and Grace Winteringham reveal all
Cate Blanchett to get BFI Fellowship
Oscar-winning Australian actor and theatre director to be honoured at London film festival for her outstanding achievement in film
Alasdair Gray’s Lanark hits the stage: ‘it’s wild and heroic – if we fail, we fail’
‘Scotland’s Ulysses’ has been turned into a theatrical epic at the Edinburgh festival. For playwright David Greig and director Graham Eatough, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
Lee Hall: Why I put Alan Warner’s The Sopranos on stage
The rude, Rabelaisian but very modern tale of a Scottish girls’ school choir on the rampage is simply the funniest novel I’ve ever read – and also transcendent
Paisley really could be the UK’s third city of culture – it’s been unjustly neglected for too long
There are few towns in Britain with a greater industrial and social history – and a deader high street today. Paisley deserves more notice, and makes a fitting candidate to be passed the cultural crown from Hull in 2021
Tim Key, the superstar standup poet, on fishcakes, Footlights and the fringe
Tim Key was a standup going nowhere fast until one day he took out a notepad and poetry spilled out of him. Now he’s one of the hottest comics around
Florence the superhero: the comics giving pop stars superpowers
The comic-writing duo behind Marvel’s Young Avengers are giving pop stars the superhero treatment. Enter the gorgeous, fantastical worlds of Phonogram and WicDiv
Down and Out in Paris and London review – Orwell meets Toynbee
George Orwell’s 1933 novel is entwined with Polly Toynbee’s book Hard Work in a neatly performed study of poverty then and now