‘If we don’t teach kids about consent, the internet will’: Natasha Devon on the importance of sex education

The mental health campaigner’s new book tackles sex and relationships through the eyes of a 16-year-old. In the face of a backlash against inclusive sex ed in schools she explains why we have to keep the conversation open

‘We still make judgments from the way people talk’: Rob Drummond decodes accent prejudice

As a new book explores stereotypes that are socialised into us, 11 readers also reflect on the way they speak

George the Poet: ‘These Tories will get what’s coming to them. They are not the British people’

The podcaster and yes, poet, on fatherhood, writing for the royal wedding and why spoken word has stormed the mainstream

Poet Safiya Sinclair: ‘As a girl I felt small within Rastafari’

The Jamaican poet on her new memoir chronicling life with an authoritarian father, reconfiguring the postcard image of her homeland and her love of Marvel comic books

Angus Deaton on inequality: ‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’

The Nobel prize winner and author of new book Economics in America argues economists must get back to serving society

‘I could go to therapy and unpack it all – but I don’t have time for that’: Julia Fox on chaos, kink and dating Kanye West

After a wild and troubled young life growing up in New York, the actor came out of nowhere to become the breakout star of indie hit Uncut Gems. Then – after a month dating the controversial rapper – her life somehow got even weirder

‘Libraries are the heart of community’: children’s laureate Joseph Coelho on inspiring the next generation of writers

Since his first anthology in 2014, Coelho has become a prolific author for children and YA readers – and it all started, he says, in a vital community space

Charlotte Wood: ‘It was like I had acid poured on my whole life … but in a good way’

As Charlotte Wood was writing her latest book, she got cancer. As did her two sisters. But the acclaimed novelist is determined that her work is not despairing

‘A secret no one talked about’: Michael Morpurgo on discovering his real father – and hating Spielberg’s War Horse

As he turns 80, the prolific children’s author takes us on a tour of his Devon village, to talk about family bombshells, the burning of Joan of Arc – and finally getting a film adaptation he likes

‘I learned to lower the threshold’: Karl Ove Knausgaard on his process, passions and life after My Struggle

As the second in a new series of books is published in English, the writer talks candidly about laying himself and his family bare on the page, and his interest in black metal and transhumanism

Michael Mansfield KC: ‘The two-party system is a straitjacket’

The barrister famous for his work on landmark cases such as Grenfell, Stephen Lawrence and the Birmingham Six has written a book about fighting injustice

Jhumpa Lahiri: ‘Translation is an act of radical change’

The Indian-American author and translator on her special affinity with Rome, why she doesn’t give her characters names, and her passion for Ovid

‘I’m not worried about fame or glory’: Lydia Davis, the author who has refused to sell her book on Amazon

The award-winning short story writer talks about her boycott of the world’s biggest marketplace, her love of languages and living with Paul Auster in Paris

How women drove evolution: Cat Bohannon on her radical new history of humanity

The American academic and author is revolutionising our understanding of the human body with her female-centric history of the species. She discusses the myth-busting book that took 10 years to write

Billy Connolly’s most intimate interview yet (by his wife): ‘Comedians never used to worry about what was correct to say. You said it, and soon found out’

Only one person can get to the heart of who the Big Yin is – his partner and carer, psychotherapist Pamela Stephenson Connolly. He talks about how Parkinson’s has changed him, what he misses from being on tour, and living in a hotbed of Trump supporters in Florida