In an interview with Q's Tom Power, the bestselling author tells us how her novel Hamnet came to be, and how the death of ...

Chloe Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell talk about co-writing the movie 'Hamnet': One was chaotic, the other was organized ...

It’s always a question of whether you want to read a book first before you see a movie adaptation, but the flavor of the question facing “Hamnet” is a little bit different. It certainly isn’t one of ...

In her moving 2020 novel, Hamnet, the Northern Irish writer Maggie O'Farrell explored the possibility that a real-life tragedy may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.

In November, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Maggie O’Farrell’s historical tear-jerker, about a death that shaped Shakespeare. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book ...

The movie is never as good as the book. It's just one of the truisms of film-to-screen adaptations. But then there's Hamnet. Director Chloé Zhao insisted that Maggie O'Farrell - the author of the ...

History has not graced us with many details about Shakespeare as a person, but we do know that he and his wife had three children, including a son named Hamnet who died at the age of 11 in 1596, four ...

Filmmaker Chloé Zhao has returned with her fifth feature film, “Hamnet,” a tragedy based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 bestselling novel, but the movie traces its origins to a meeting at a film festival ...

Focus Features releases the film that adapts Maggie O'Farrell's acclaimed novel. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Focus Features releases the film in select theaters Nov. 27 before its ...

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet is already being whispered about as one of 2026’s big Oscar contenders, and if you’ve read Maggie ...