Walk on the wild side: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on their epic hiking movie The Salt Path

Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir about her and her husband’s 630-mile trek around England’s south coast has become a film. Its stars, makers and Winn talk floods, fog and forgiveness

The Salt Path review – Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs hike from ruin to renewal

Marianne Elliott directs this affecting drama, based on Raynor Winn’s memoir, which builds steadily as the couple journey towards redemption

If Ted Talks are getting shorter, what does that say about our attention spans?

According to novelist Elif Shafak, the platform suggested she make her talk shorter because viewers can’t focus for 19 minutes. Now ... where was I?

What I learned when I thought I was about to die: being too aware of life’s blessings can become a curse

While waiting in hospital, Miranda Luby wondered how you are supposed to find meaning when you know you could die any moment. Then, she found her answer

What’s better than a cafe, wilderness retreat or spa? A silent cafe, wilderness retreat or spa

Imagine going somewhere and not having to hear all about a stranger’s toxic boyfriend, pitch deck or hernia op, writes Emma Beddington

Simon Armitage: ‘Our pace of life is unhelpful to nature, it’s burning it up’

Exclusive: Poet laureate says new book, inspired by wildlife at Cornish garden, is a plea for humans to slow down and reflect

A child on thin ice: EA Hanks on life with her abusive mother – and world-famous father

One half of the author’s early life was spent with a mother who struggled with addiction, her mental health and caring responsibilities. The other was with her father Tom on film sets and in a house full of love and structure. She discusses her road trip back into her complicated past

Homefires burning: how a cache of passionate love letters shows the second world war on two fronts

The intimate correspondence of a Manchester Guardian journalist and his wife is now the basis for a theatre piece marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day

I always wondered what had happened to my missing brother. Could I ever forgive my father for driving him away?

Growing up, I had so many questions about Marshall, my hippy older sibling who left home and got embroiled with the Manson Family cult. Years later, I embarked on a quest to find out his true story

Hannah Kent: ‘I was kind of having a second adolescence’

The acclaimed writer on Iceland, euphoria and how a box of her own teenage writings made her reckon with the story she had told about herself

Torte law: bakers are in a food fight over allegations of plagiarism – but who really owns a recipe?

Bestselling Australian cookbook author Brooke Bellamy is under fire from Nagi Maehashi and Sally McKenney for copying recipes, allegations she denies. In a precise art like baking, how close is too close?

‘As a film lover, I want more’: the Black female directors taking centre stage

The curator of the BFI’s Black Debutantes season on piracy, truncated careers and the frustrations of dealing with big studios

RecipeTin Eats founder accuses Brooki Bakehouse of plagiarising recipes in popular cookbook

Brooke Bellamy denies taking recipes from fellow cookbook author Nagi Maehashi, who said it felt like ‘blatant exploitation’

Writer Saba Sams: ‘I wanted it to be sexy and really messy’

The Send Nudes author, one of Granta’s pick of the best young British novelists, on young motherhood, feminism and why we need to break the rules around love

‘Beyoncé and Solange tell me off all the time’: Tina Knowles on raising superstars, surviving cancer and growing up under segregation

Pop’s top matriarch is finally getting the credit she’s due. She talks about her shock diagnosis, conspiracy theories about her family, and the Instagram posts that get her in trouble with her kids