‘All this chaos. It’s part of who I am’: Rizzle Kicks’ Jordan Stephens on life after pop stardom

When Jordan Stephens, of pop group Rizzle Kicks, shot to fame at 19, it wasn’t long before addiction and self-destruction followed. As his memoir comes out, he talks about love, loss and finding his way back

The good hacker: can Taiwanese activist turned politician Audrey Tang detoxify the internet?

As the ‘civic hacker’ who became Taiwan’s first transgender cabinet minister, she is used to breaking boundaries. What can the rest of the world learn from her vision of a happy and inclusive web?

‘My experiences are those of so many other women’: Anna Marie Tendler on mental health and the men in her life

Men Have Called Her Crazy charts the artist’s stay in a psychiatric facility – not her divorce with John Mulaney

Sarah Manguso: ‘I seem to have hit on a cultural sore spot’

The American author on her rage-filled new novel about the end of a marriage, the extraordinary response to it, and the authors she thinks are most underrated

Naomi Klein: ‘So many of my ideas get lost’

The writer, 54, talks about cyclical relationships, fear of fascists – and letting go of self-consciousness

Novelist Kate Atkinson: ‘I do feel a need to prove myself’

As her latest Jackson Brodie thriller comes out, the award-winning author discusses cosy crime, sniffy critics, and how she investigated her own family’s secrets

Nathan Thrall: ‘The scale and brutality of the Israeli response in Gaza hasn’t surprised me, no’

The US journalist and author on his Pulitzer prize-winning book about a Palestinian father, the aftermath of 7 October and what it means to be a Jewish critic of Israel

Darcus Howe’s son Darcus Beese and his activist mother, Barbara: ‘He was imbued with the spirit of the struggle’

He was the first black boss of a UK record label. She was a British Black Panther and one of the Mangrove Nine. They reflect on the ‘madness’ of his childhood, and his memoir that records their groundbreaking legacies

Historian Richard J Evans: ‘I’m planning to write a book about pandemics next. I’ve had enough of Nazis’

The author of the definitive account of the Third Reich on revisiting nazism one last time, the ongoing need to discredit Holocaust denial and fact-checking Martin Amis’s novel The Zone of Interest

Elif Shafak: ‘As a writer in Turkey, you can be attacked, put on trial, imprisoned’

As she confronts the ecological crisis and the persecution of the Yazidi people in her latest novel, the author talks about the difficulty of being a writer – and a woman – in Turkey

Philospher Peter Godfrey-Smith: ‘To some extent, our planet would be better off without humanity’

With the bestselling Other Minds, the philosopher dramatically changed our view of octopuses. Now, concluding his trilogy about the evolution of intelligence, he shows how animal life has shaped the planet itself

Pat Barker and Benjamin Myers in conversation: ‘I’m absolutely intolerable when I’m not writing’

Ahead of new books by both, the two English novelists discuss their friendship, the baggage that comes with being labelled ‘northern writers’ and why the Krankies’ memoir is a must-read

Mick Herron: ‘Most people didn’t know I was writing – I was a secretive kind of writer’

His spy series became the TV hit Slow Horses, and now his earlier novels are being adapted for screen, starring Emma Thompson. Mick Herron talks about finding recognition

Biologist Rosemary Grant: ‘Evolution happens much quicker than Darwin thought’

The evolutionary expert discusses the triumphs and challenges of the groundbreaking research on Galápagos Islands finches she undertook with her husband, Peter

Pulitzer-winning author Anne Applebaum: ‘Often, for autocrats, the second time in power is worse’

The journalist tells of her fears for democracy’s future, the dangers of another Trump presidency and how her husband became Poland’s foreign minister