Poets & Writers Theater

Miss Austen is a four-part historical television series produced by PBS Masterpiece, an adaptation by Andrea Gibb of the novel of the same name by Gill Hornby. Directed by Aisling Walsh, the series stars Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen, the sister of late Jane Austen, who searches for Jane’s letters in order to protect her reputation.

Written and directed by Laura Piani, this French romantic comedy follows a bookseller at the legendary bookshop, Shakespeare and Company, who dreams of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel and becoming a writer. The film stars Camille Rutherford, Pablo Pauly, Charlie Anson, and Annabelle Lengronne.

Watch the trailer for The Friend, a film adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award–winning novel of the same name. Written and directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the film stars Ann Dowd, Bill Murray, Naomi Watts, and Bing the Great Dane.

Watch the trailer for the television series adaptation of Charles Yu’s novel Interior Chinatown (Pantheon Books, 2020). Created by Yu, the series stars Jimmy O. Yang as Willis Wu, Ronny Chieng as Fatty Choi, and Chloe Bennet as Detective Lana Lee.

In this Apple TV+ series adaptation of Colin O’Sullivan’s 2018 novel, originally titled The Dark Manual, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, is gifted a robot to help console her after her husband and son vanish in a plane crash. Written and executive produced by Katie Robbins, the series stars Rashida Jones, Hidetoshi Nishijima, and Joanna Sotomura.

“When I sit down, I invite that muse, that ardor, that passion to get to some place of discovery.” In this preview for the season four premiere of the public television series Poetry in America, poets Richard Blanco and Amanda Gorman, among other writers and scholars, join host Elisa New to discuss two poems by pioneering Black poet Phillis Wheatley. Watch the full episode here.

Watch this sneak peek of the first screen adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. The Spanish-language series was filmed in Colombia with support from the author’s family and is written by José Rivera, Natalia Santa, Camila Brugés, María Camila Arias, and Albatrós González. The multi-generational tale follows the Buendía family and tells the story of the founding of the mythical town of Macondo.

In this new adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Talented Mr. Ripley, written, directed, and executive produced by Steve Zaillian, the eight-episode limited Netflix series takes place in the early 1960s with the title character entering a life of deceit, fraud, and murder.

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.

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.

Watch the trailer for The Artful Dodger, an eight-part television series based on the characters from Charles Dickens’s classic book Oliver Twist. The Hulu series stars Thomas Brodie-Sangster, David Thewlis, and Maia Mitchell.

Watch the trailer for All the Light We Cannot See, a Netflix limited series adapted from Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name, directed by Shawn Levy and starring Mark Ruffalo. The series is set to premiere in November.

The Fall of the House of Usher is a gothic horror drama miniseries created by Mike Flanagan based on the short story of the same name and other works by Edgar Allan Poe. Starring Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, and Mary McConnell, the eight-episode series follows the demise of the uber-wealthy Usher family, as their heirs mysteriously die one after another.

Take a first look at the Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus, starring Brie Larson and Lewis Pullman. The series follows a chemist in the 1960s, whose life takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself a single mother and the reluctant star of a beloved cooking show.

Watch the trailer for the film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s short story “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” a short film directed by Wes Anderson. The Netlfix film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, and Ben Kingsley.

Watch the trailer for The Other Black Girl, a Hulu series adaptation of the debut novel of the same name by Zakiya Dalila Harris. The comedy-drama mystery thriller series stars Sinclair Daniel, Ashleigh Murray, Brittany Adebumola, Hunter Parrish, and Eric McCormack.