This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. In recent years, some of the most talked-about literary novels have not given their readers much to talk about ...

This is the official cover “Ask Me Again” owned and distributed by Knopf. When you attempt to write a plotless novel, your protagonist better have a hell of an internal dialogue. For her debut novel, ...

Tomorrow night Doc Films will screen Days and Nights in the Forest, one of Indian director Satyajit Ray’s greatest accomplishments, and on Friday Hong Sang-soo’s minimalist Grass opens at the Gene ...

Holiday seasons always have a movie genre tied to them. On Christmas, families settle down to heartwarming stories of finding love and connection in a cold, snowy month. On Valentine’s Day, couples ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Terrence Malick’s Song to Song spent three years in postproduction and still doesn’t make sense. As a story; as a ...

At first sight, what absolutely fascinated me about Kaushik Barua’s No Direction Rome was a tastefully conceptualised and designed book cover – understated, subtle, symbolic and stylish. Sombre and ...

This unfortunately prophetically titled British farce follows the tedious misadventures of a Sir Glame, a bumbling medieval knig ...