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Both books and movies seek to tell compelling stories, but they do so in different ways. Peter Markham, both a director and a long-time teacher of directing at the American Film Institute, talks us through five of his favourite book-to-movie adaptations—and what they reveal about successfully bringing a book to the screen.
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The Women’s Prize for Fiction celebrates women’s voices and women’s storytelling. We spoke to judge Salma El-Wardany about the six novels on the 2026 shortlist ahead of the prize ceremony on Thursday
The Women's Prize was set up to highlight the very best of women's writing—whatever their subject matter. We spoke to Salma El-Wardany, one of this year's judges, about the six books that made it onto their fiction shortlist: skillfully told novels that will appeal to a wide audience, from Virginia Evan's heartwarming epistolary novel The Correspondent to Susan Choi's Flashlight, a heavyweight family saga that sweeps through the decades and across oceans.
Many people feel dissatisfied with aspects of neoliberalism, but fewer know what it is or where it came from. Economic historian Niall Kishtainy recommends some of his favourite books on the history of economic thought, books that use intellectual history to examine issues confronting us in the real world.
