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A Gentleman in Moscow is a television adaptation of Amor Towles’s 2016 best-selling novel of the same name. The Showtime limited series follows Count Alexander Rostov, played by Ewan McGregor, who is banished to an attic hotel room after the Russian Revolution.
Watch the trailer for the television series adaptation of Liu Cixin’s acclaimed science fiction novel, The Three-Body Problem, translated from the Chinese by Ken Liu and published by Tor Books in 2014. Created by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo and starring Jovan Adepo, Rosalind Chao, Jess Hong, and Benedict Wong, the Netflix series follows the life of an astrophysicist during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and her encounters with extraterrestrial life.
Apples Never Fall is a mystery drama television adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s 2021 novel of the same name starring Annette Bening, Alison Brie, Jake Lacy, and Sam Neill. The Peacock miniseries follows the Delaney family as their lives unravel when the matriarch of their family goes missing.
“It’s an opportunity for a character, whose story could not have been told by [Mark] Twain, to have his story told.” In this short video, Percival Everett speaks about his new novel, James (Doubleday, 2024), a reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.
In this episode of Poured Over: The Barnes & Noble Podcast hosted by Miwa Messer, Phillip B. Williams talks about the makings of his debut novel, Ours (Viking, 2024), and how his characters led him to shape the story. For more from Williams, read his installment of our Ten Questions online series.
In this PBS NewsHour video, Kaveh Akbar speaks about writing his first novel, Martyr! (Knopf, 2024), and how pop culture as well as Persian and contemporary literature mix into the narrative in an interview with Jeffrey Brown. The novel is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
In this event hosted by the Free Library of Philadelphia, Kiley Reid reads from her second novel, Come and Get It (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2024), and discusses what it means to have an artistic responsibility to truth in a conversation with Niela Orr. Come and Get It is featured in Page One in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
One Day is a television adaptation of the novel of the same name by best-selling author and screenwriter David Nicholls. Directed by Molly Manners with an adaptation led by Nicole Taylor, the Netflix limited series stars Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall as two best friends finding themselves over the course of twenty years.
Expats is a drama television series adaptation of Janice Y. K. Lee’s best-selling 2016 novel, The Expatriates. Directed by Lulu Wang and starring Sarayu Blue, Nicole Kidman, and Ji-young Yoo, the six-episode limited series follows the lives of three American women in Hong Kong and their fateful, life-changing encounter.
Watch the trailer for the television adaptation of Australian journalist and author Trent Dalton’s novel Boy Swallows Universe (Harper, 2019). The Netflix limited series follows a young boy growing up in the suburbs of 1980s Brisbane facing the harsh realities of life and his family.
