Regina King on fighting white supremacists in Watchmen: ‘My community is living this story’

The Oscar-winner is playing a cape-swishing superhero in HBO’s revamp of the epic comic book. She talks wage gaps, wardrobe woes and her dreams of becoming a dentist

Booker winners Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood on breaking the rules

The judges staged a ‘joyful mutiny’ to name the pair joint winners of the literary prize. And that’s not all that unites them

Jung Chang: ‘To be a writer was the most dangerous profession’

The biographer of Mao on life during the Cultural Revolution, finding strength in her mother, and the sisters who helped shape modern China

‘My ties to England have loosened’: John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit

Ahead of publishing his 25th novel, le Carré talks to John Banville about our ‘dismal statesmanship’ and what he learned from his time as a spy

Jacqueline Wilson: Young care leavers thought Tracy Beaker should be more aspirational

The children’s author on why she made her now grownup eponymous character more successful in life

Heather Rose: ‘When I get lost in my imagination I don’t feel the pain’

The Stella prize-winning novelist who chronicled the life of Marina Abramović talks about battling chronic illness and her explosive new novel

Ed Needham: ‘Top editors’ jobs have all vanished’

The founder and editor of literary magazine Strong Words on his appetite for tales of financial chicanery and why he won’t be returning to Austen

Adam Kay: ‘I thought I was the only doctor who ever cried in the toilet’

The writer and comedian on his bestselling memoir, why he misses life as a doctor – and literary snobbery

Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Surveillance capitalism is an assault on human autonomy’

What began as advertising is now a threat to freedom and democracy argues the author and scholar. Time to wake up - and fight for a different digital future

‘Our activism was missing something’: the man who lugged the Uluru Statement across Australia

When Thomas Mayor took the canvas around the country, he used his union experience to unite disparate nations. A new book records the conversations he had along the way

Wuthering depths: the Brontë country graphic novel about floods and fracking

Yorkshire’s under threat – from extreme weather, extreme pollution and extreme grouse-shooting. The Costa-winning duo behind graphic novel Rain talk us through its deeper meanings

Philip Pullman: ‘Boris Johnson doesn’t mind who he hurts. He doesn’t mind if he destroys the truth or not’

He is a master of blending fact and fiction but, as Philip Pullman says, today’s politicians are on another level

Chris Hammer: ‘I am a serial killer. I kill my darlings left, right and centre’

His new novel about to hit bookstores, the bestselling author reflects on Scrublands’ success – and writing by the seat of his pants

Serhii Plokhy: ‘Americans objected to Stalinism, not socialism’

The Harvard historian on the tale of a US-Soviet operation in 1944 – and his fascination with Britain’s angry young men

‘Guilt and shame’: journalist James Verini on the US role in the destruction of Iraq

The author of a new first-hand account of the battle of Mosul talks about his experiences on the frontline