Anne Frank film shot during 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict secretly screened in Iran
Anne Frank: Then and Now excerpts from the diary acted by two Israelis and eight Palestinian girls, one of whom performs in front of rubble from an Israeli airstrike
Amazon orders Jack Ryan TV series starring John Krasinski
Star of US version of The Office to take role of action hero previously played in movies by Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin and Ben Affleck
Lost cities #4: Pompeii was preserved by disaster. Now it risks ruin all over again
The volcanic eruption that destroyed the Roman city also froze it in time – but now, 2,000 years later, it is alive with people who threaten its existence all over again
The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture and the Human Future – review
Our map of gender has been radically redrawn in recent years, and Frank Browning offers an accessible guide to complex new terrain
Jonathan Franzen’s lack of black friends is unsettling but it’s hardly unusual in white America
The novelist may be embarrassed that he socialises primarily with white people, but he hasn’t stopped to ask why
Antony Copley obituary
Other lives: Historian and campaigner who taught at universities around the world
The Girl Who Beat Isis: My Story review – inside the horror of Isis
One young Yazidi woman’s harrowing account of sadism and sexual torture is lifted by her bravery
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s – review
Anne Sebba’s account of the French women who dared to say no to the Nazis is compelling
Poetic justice: the rise of brilliant women writing in dark times
Millions are turning to poetry in response to a year of troubling news stories – with previously excluded voices in the field now going viral
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
Book now: German readers get extra baggage allowance for holiday reading
The Buch an Bord scheme gives readers an additional kilogram of luggage for free to make room for books. What will you be packing?
Kirsten Dunst to direct The Bell Jar starring Dakota Fanning
The Melancholia actor is to make her directorial debut with a version of Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel
Roman Polanski and Olivier Assayas join forces on new film
The two plan respectively to direct and script an adaptation of French writer Delphine de Vigan’s novel about a writer and an obsessive fan
Lee Lockwood: the American photojournalist who captured Castro’s Cuba on camera
American photojournalist Lee Lockwood’s remarkable access to the revolutionary leader in the first years of his rule – including a seven-day marathon interview – provides a unique record of historic times
The former child bride who is using her story to liberate Afghan women
Zahra Yaganah was married off to a violent man at 13. Now an author, her book is shining a light on abuse in Afghanistan