Naomi Oreskes: ‘Discrediting science is a political strategy’
The Harvard professor on science and scepticism – and why climate deniers have run out of excuses
David Mitchell: ‘I have no reason to have these apocalyptic musings’
He has a happy home life, two sitcoms on the go and a new book in the offing – so why is the comedian still so crotchety?
Edwin Frank: ‘The best art is often powerfully irrelevant’
The head of the New York Review of Books Classics on how and why old books still matter
Derek Owusu: ‘Mental health issues that people find scary aren’t being talked about’
With a new book out on Stormzy’s imprint, the writer discusses men’s emotions, Ghanaian families and paying his brother £50 for each novel he reads
‘I guess that’s revealing’: David Rubenstein on Trump and the weight of history
The billionaire is also an interviewer – in July, Mike Pompeo told him something about the president that seems newly significant
Dafne Keen of His Dark Materials: ‘Lyra taught me to not follow rules’
Facing down fascists in the BBC’s Philip Pullman adaptation is child’s play for an actor whose improv left Wolverine speechless. The prodigy talks jellyfish, religion and her night out with Lin-Manuel Miranda
Emma Forrest: ‘I have a shelf just of the books my exes gave me’
The writer and director on how her new novel came to her in dreams, the three female artists who’ve influenced her most, and the restorative effect of Rachel Cusk’s trilogy
Julian Barnes: ‘Do you expect Europe to cut us a good deal? It’s so childish’
His new book The Man in the Red Coat may be set in 19th-century Paris, but the Booker prize winner sees clear parallels with our lurid times. He talks nationalism, grief and writing ‘filth’
The hunt for Shakespeare’s library: ‘I couldn’t stop looking if I wanted to’
Stuart Kells has spent 20 years on the trail of the Bard’s books and manuscripts, which he believes have been scattered all over the world
Ariel Levy on Demi Moore: ‘She was sick of people trying to tell her who she should be’
From hosting a podcast about Jeffrey Epstein to ghostwriting for one of Hollywood’s most famous, the journalist reflects on life after her ‘trial by fire’
Peter Crouch: ‘I’ve got a photo of me and Mickey Rourke doing the robot’
The ex-England striker on playing Trivial Pursuit with his teammates, hiding from Mickey Rourke and not taking himself too seriously
Hisham Matar: ‘Writing is both the easiest and the most difficult thing’
The Libyan prize-winning author on how art helped him cope with his father’s disappearance – and the joys of Proust
‘Oh man, she’s back’: Elizabeth Strout on the return of Olive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge sold a million copies and won a Pulitzer. Can a follow-up recapture its magic? Elizabeth Strout talks about surprise success in her sixth decade
‘A need for deep respect’: Anna Krien on fiction, war and cultural appropriation
The Australian journalist’s first novel goes into contentious territory, portraying women of colour and an Iraq war veteran
Kathleen Jamie: ‘Nature writing has been colonised by white men’
The genre’s current boom is dominated by middle-class males, she says, but the author of Surfacing prefers to concentrate on ‘deep time’