Cancelled Glasgow book festival Aye Write receives lifeline donation

£65,000 gift will not restore the full, 10-day occasion but organisers say it will make pop-up events possible

Edinburgh international book festival announces ‘relaunch’ as sponsor row remains unresolved

New director Jenny Niven calls controversy over lead sponsor Baillie Gifford’s fossil fuel links ‘the nature of the beast’, but activists are still calling for authors to boycott the event

Gary Lineker, Theresa May and David Nicholls join the Hay festival 2024 lineup

This year’s festival promises to be a ‘civic platform’, with a new series of daily news analysis, a debate about the Israel-Gaza war and an appeal to the younger generation

Melbourne writers’ festival deputy chair resigns over Aboriginal and Palestinian solidarity poetry event

Leslie Reti quoted as saying the event’s program description is ‘deeply offensive’, but artistic director calls it a ‘celebration’ of connection between communities

Safety signals and security guards: when did Australian writers’ festivals become so fraught?

Perth writers’ weekend has a risk-management plan, as a culture war brews ahead of Adelaide writers’ week. How can organisers keeps festivals safe without watering them down?

The Guardian view on festivals and the future: bound together by the power of a shared vision

Editorial: We need international gatherings if we are to find a common language to resist environmental destruction

All of Us Strangers review – Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott tremendous in a beautiful fantasy-romance

Scott, Mescal and Claire Foy shine in a drama about a screenwriter who visits his childhood home to find his parents, who were killed in a car crash, still living there

Dutch town shakes off political strife with ‘world’s largest Dickens festival’

Festival a ‘flight from reality’ for expected 125,000 visitors to enjoy street theatre and Victorian treats

Rory Stewart, Jeanette Winterson and Marlon James announced for Hay festival 2024

The UK literary festival unveils 29 taster events next year and plans to focus on ‘global themes and the impact of issues on the world’

‘We are hardly alive’: posts from Gaza cause tears at the Palestine festival of literature

Featuring contributions from poets, novelists and a Nobel laureate, this highly charged night – interrupted by updates from Gaza in real time – marked the suffering on both sides of the conflict

‘I thought it was me alone’: how the Black British book festival has grown

Now in its third year, the event stepped up its ambitions and aims not only to spotlight authors but to change audiences

Starve Acre review – intelligent performances in sinister Yorkshire folk horror

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark play an unhappy couple who have moved to the moors with their young son, and soon become entwined in the occult

The Pigeon Tunnel review – inside the extraordinary life of John le Carré

Errol Morris’s gentle interview allows the mesmeric writer to hold forth on how his relationship with dodgy dad Ronnie informed his life as a spy and novelist

Origin review – a heartfelt look at a journalist challenging the concept of race

There are solid performances in this dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s attempt to explain racism as an aspect of the caste system, but it may have been better as a documentary

Priscilla review – Sofia Coppola paints an absorbing, intimate portrait of Elvis’s wife

Based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, the film shows how a naive schoolgirl became trapped behind the gates of Graceland in a bizarrely co-dependent relationship