Film history is littered with adaptations that didn’t do their literary source material justice. But the small screen’s longer format could be the ideal place for unwieldy texts
Andrew Davies’s triumphant TV series has caused sales of Tolstoy’s epic to soar. Here are five more big reads to fill the gap – from Finnegans Wake to Gravity’s Rainbow. And every one is ripe for the small screen
This government will be judged on three issues: Europe, the union of the UK and public spending. The trick is not to bring your preconceptions with you
One celebrated the virtues of selfishness in a right-wingers' set text. The other's a billionaire mining magnate who once wrote a terrible poem. Or is it the other way round? Take our quiz
The Nico Project; The Fountainhead – review