New on Timery: screen stars, a bestselling author and the F1 season

This week brings four careers built on screen and page, and one season still in progress. Four of the new timelines follow people who have shaped film, television and publishing. The fifth tracks a Formula One year as it unfolds.

Actors who moved behind the camera

Meryl Streep: First Lady of the Screen covers five decades across stage, film and television, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations and three Oscars.

Kate Winslet runs from Titanic and Sense and Sensibility to her Oscar in 2009, then to Emmy wins and a recent move into directing.

Jodie Foster begins with a child performer and follows her to two Best Actress Oscars, her own films as director, and an Emmy for True Detective: Night Country.

A writer who changed publishing

J.K. Rowling traces the path from writing on welfare in Edinburgh to the seven Harry Potter books, the crime novels published as Robert Galbraith, and the debates over sex and gender that now surround her.

A season still being written

Formula One 2026 goes race by race through the first year of the new engine and active-aero rules, with Audi and Cadillac on the grid and Kimi Antonelli leading the championship for Mercedes. It is updated after every Grand Prix, so it is worth returning to.