adaptations

Carlo Scarpa’s artful management of light and space

3 January 2026 9:00 am

The startling interventions and adaptations of a great 20th-century Venetian architect and designer are examined in detail by Federica Goffi

Brought to book

16 July 2022 9:00 am

You may already have read early reviews of Netflix’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion saying it’s ‘the worst adaptation ever’…

Lost in translation

15 February 2020 9:00 am

You won’t find much Jane Austen in the myriad adaptations of her novels, says Claire Harman

‘We can really slow down and live with the characters, understand what they’re thinking and feeling’: a scene from the BBC’s adaptation of ‘War and Peace’

Pornographer-in-Chief

23 January 2016 9:00 am

What does Andrew Davies have to say to those who accuse him of gratuitous rumpy-pumpy in his adaptations of the classics? Stephen Smith finds out