Shackleton’s remarkable 1914 mission gets a stirring retelling by the directors of Free Solo as a fine cast of experts search for the remains of his shipThe story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s doomed 1914 attempt to cross Antarctica has been told many times before – notably in the 1919 silent film South (handsomely restored by the BFI) by Frank Hurley,...

Tight-lipped humour thrums through the latest in the Booker winner’s Strafford and Quirke crime series, which centres on a university professor and his missing wifeJohn Banville is so far staying true to his suggestion in 2022 that The Singularities would be his final “non-crime” novel, preferring in late life to concentrate instead on books that take...

The V&A has delved into its archives to showcase the embryonic work of leading artists including Leonardo and Constable along with lesser-known talents, offering a rare insight into the artistic mindWhat was John Constable up to at 8.30am on 26 September 1814? If his sketchbook can be trusted, the great landscape painter was in Dedham Vale on the...

Coliseum, London Isabella Bywater’s intelligent and demanding production injects fresh menace into Henry James’s tale of a ghosts and dark histories These days, the Turn of the Screw has become an operatic standby. So you might think it would be hard to inject freshly original layers of menace into Benjamin Britten’s claustrophobically taut adaptation...

The Shepherd’s Life author trades the Lake District for a remote island just below the Arctic Circle, where he joins an ‘unbreakable’ septuagenarian keeping an ancient family tradition aliveIn The Place of Tides, farmer James Rebanks strays far from the land and work with which we have come to associate him. In the bestselling The Shepherd’s Life (2015)...

The film-maker, playwright and novelist finished his last book, Yorùbá Boy Running, the day before he died in 2022. Now, loved ones and collaborators, including his daughter Temi and longtime friend Kwame Kwei-Armah, celebrate the passionate man behind the workIn early August 2022, Biyi Bándélé had a conversation with his editor, Hannah Chukwu, about...