No strings attached: the new wave of puppetry storming London’s West End
Sophisticated productions of Life of Pi and 101 Dalmatians are pushing the art of puppetry into new and sometimes surprisingly dark directions
March 2021
Lockdown one year on: Hiran Abeysekera on how Covid nixed his West End debut
The Sri Lankan actor, who had delighted audiences at the Sheffield Crucible in Life of Pi, was poised for his West End debut when lockdown struck
March 2017
Bookmark this
Ariel Levy, Krissy Kneen, Cat Marnell – literary highlights for Australia in March
Shadowy cults, Paul Robeson-inspired travelogues, stories of rape and reconciliation, and a Booker prize winner are coming to bookstores this month
March 2016
A life in ...
Yann Martel: ‘My children aren’t impressed that I won the Booker or that I wrote Life of Pi’
The mega-selling author on faith, animals and his new novel – and his insant rise from struggling writer to literary household name
January 2016
Book of the day
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel review – a surreal offering from the Life of Pi author
Walking backwards in Lisbon, a gruesome autopsy, a tale of man and ape … Martel saves the best until last in this collection of strange and farcical stories
February 2013
Books blog
The Life of Pi sells 3,141,593 copies, and counting …
Best picture Oscar hustings
Oscars 2013: Why Life of Pi should win best picture - video
January 2013
Children's books
Life of Pi by Yann Martel - review
mariakozhuhar 'Original and beautiful, it actually makes you feel like you're present on that boat'
After Hollywood
Life of Pi: a global vision for mainstream cinema
Phil Hoad: As its triumph in Asia suggests, Ang Lee's Life of Pi navigates cultural boundaries between east and west with ease
Another view
Life of Pi: a zoo keeper's view
Interview by Laura Barnett
The film has got many aspects of tiger behaviour spot on, says carnivores handler Andy Wolfenden, but he'd never feed his animals a live goat
December 2012
Life of Pi is a visual triumph but it won't stand repeat viewings
Life of Pi: 'I felt like I was going insane'
September 2012
First look review
Life of Pi – first look review
Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's novel – which opened the New York film festival – is the summation of the principle powering his career: still waters run deep
August 2012
Ang Lee's Life of Pi to open New York film festival
Big-screen adaptation of Yann Martel's prize-winning novel will become the first 3D film to open the festival next month
October 2010
Ang Lee casts unknown teenage actor in Life of Pi
Suraj Sharma, a 17-year-old student from Delhi, wins lead role in film adaptation of Yann Martel's novel
October 2009
Ang Lee boards Life of Pi film
Director says he has cracked the structure of Yann Martel's allegorical novel about a boy adrift at sea with a tiger
February 2009
Ang Lee could set sail on Life of Pi
Oscar-winning director of Brokeback Mountain is in talks to direct an adaptation of Yann Martel's acclaimed novel
October 2007
Book club
In the same boat
Book club
Into the void
September 2007
Book club
Narrative ark
John Mullan on the innocent voice of the narrator of Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
