Edinburgh film festival announces lineup after seeing off closure threat
Having survived the collapse of its parent organisation, the festival returns with a slimmed-down event
Edinburgh book festival hoping Greta Thunberg will bring back audiences
Fallout from Covid crisis has left event struggling financially after last year’s ‘traumatic’ fall in sales
Salman Rushdie to write a book about being stabbed on stage
Author tells Hay literary festival he needs to ‘get past’ the knife attack he suffered before writing anything else
Trump election reframed TV version of The Handmaid’s Tale, says Atwood
Hugely successful adaptation of dystopian novel began airing three months after 2016 US presidential election
Boys ‘mustn’t be afraid of female-led books’, says author Joanne Harris
Teaching must change to prevent violence against women, she said at Hay festival, also speaking on narratives of menopause
Using psychedelics for depression is exciting area, says ex-vaccines chief
Kate Bingham, who chaired UK’s Covid vaccine taskforce, tells Hay festival she hopes mind-altering drugs could treat mental illness
Rebecca F Kuang rejects idea authors should not write about other races
US novelist talks of ‘weird kind of identity politics in American publishing’ while at Hay festival
The Taste of Things (aka The Pot-au-Feu) review – Juliette Binoche foodie romance is an invitation to drool
Binoche and Benoît Magimel serve this Belle Époque tale of meaningful meals very well, but some may wish for a pinch of salt
Killers of the Flower Moon review – Scorsese’s remarkable epic about the bloody birth of modern America
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone star in this macabre western about serial murders among the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma, which reflects the erasure of Native Americans from the US
The Zone of Interest review – Jonathan Glazer adapts Martin Amis’s chilling Holocaust drama
Focusing on the everyday domesticity of the Auschwitz commandant’s family might only reflect the horror indirectly, but the film pulls the banality of evil into pin-sharp focus
Occupied City review – Steve McQueen’s moving meditation on wartime Amsterdam
The monumental film which tracks day-to-day life in Amsterdam under Nazi rule asks hard questions of what we think about the gulf between past and present
Elena Ferrante and Marian Keyes among authors competing in Eurovision book contest
As musicians prepare for the Eurovision song contest on Saturday, entries for its literary counterpart have been announced
The Eight Mountains review – a movie with air in its lungs and love in its heart
A meditation on our capacity for love shapes this sweeping story of two friends, torn apart by family and life’s journeys but bound by something deeper
Stormzy’s #Merky Books festival aims to ‘light imaginations’ of young storytellers
Speaker Malorie Blackman says two-day event exists to ‘spark the aspirations’ of those who might not have considered a creative career
‘Travel is medicine’: how the Sherborne Travel Writing Festival can inspire our trips
Colin Thubron, Sara Wheeler and other celebrated writers will be in Dorset to explain why travel literature still has an important role to play despite the climate crisis and hardening of borders