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Books & Arts Ferrante’s dangerous genius Jane Goodall 6 December 2018 Television | This carefully paced adaptation of My Brilliant Friend brings a corner of Naples to life Books & Arts An adaptation for grown-ups Brian McFarlane 6 December 2018 Cinema | The Children Act succeeds because of its ideas as much as its narrative Correspondents Anna Burns, a Booker with soul David Hayes 17 October 2018 The Belfast novelist’s prize underlines the BBC’s cultural drift National Affairs Stranger than fiction Graeme Smith 10 October 2018 Two journalist–novelists compare notes on Chinese espionage

Correspondents Kazuo Ishiguro: a sense of freedom David Hayes 10 October 2017 Letter from London | A Nobel award gives the British novelist’s voice as well as his work a new authority Essays & Reportage Publishing’s parallel universe Louise Merrington 5 October 2017 Self-publishing need no longer be a second-best option, especially if you’re a writer of genre fiction Books & Arts Beautiful dystopia Jane Goodall 11 July 2017 Television | Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale makes a mostly smooth transition to the screen Books & Arts The sense of an adaptation Brian McFarlane 25 May 2017 Cinema | The Sense of an Ending reveals another way of translating fiction onto the screen

Books & Arts The book of the film of the book Brian McFarlane 3 August 2016 Brian McFarlane reviews Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship Books & Arts A story told over and over Jane Goodall 18 July 2016 Television | Game of Thrones brings to the screen qualities we associate with Aeschylus and Sophocles, writes Jane Goodall Books & Arts Cruel beauty Andrew Ford 2 June 2016 Composers might sometimes be envied by other artists, but music has a paradoxical limitation, writes Andrew Ford Books & Arts On literary awards Susan Lever 30 May 2016 Australia’s array of awards shows there are good and bad ways of recognising great writing, argues Susan Lever