‘Motherhood is a cult, to a degree’: Anne Heltzel on her horror novel about parenthood
The author explains how Just Like Mother, her gothic horror tale of a cult fixated on childbearing, is uncomfortably close to reality
‘I try to photograph the unseen’: Michael Kenna on 50 years of shooting breathtaking landscapes
A new book celebrates half a century of work by the landmark English photographer, who has captured everything from factories to shrines in stunning black-and-white images
‘Lachlan Murdoch is a Hamlet figure’: Michael Wolff unpicks the real-life succession drama
The author has returned to the Murdoch empire for his latest book, after a bestselling trilogy on Trump. He discusses power, politics, the media and why a person can be a moron and a genius
Mary Beard: ‘The last thing I’d want is a world in which we all agreed’
The classicist on autocrats ancient and modern, free speech in universities and whether Twitter has been a force for good
Joan Collins on love, loss and lust at 90: ‘You have to eat life or life will eat you!’
She has been famous for more than seven decades – and has as much zest and ambition today as she did at 18. She discusses fame, politics, the casting couch, motherhood and marrying five times
‘Ghosts love my house’: Jeanette Winterson on hauntings, high spirits and post-humanism
Over a long lunch, the writer talks about ghostly encounters, embracing AI, rebelling against convention and why our future human life holds no fears for her
‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech
In his new book, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home, he argues it’s now the ‘fiefdoms’ of tech firms that shape us
Susie Dent: ‘English has always evolved by mistake’
The queen of Countdown’s dictionary corner on the power of positive language and finding joy in ‘mubble fubbles’
The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst: ‘Goth is about being in love with the melancholy beauty of existence’
The band’s co-founder on reconciling with Robert Smith and the real meaning of the dark music subculture
Sunday with Adele Parks: ‘I might sit down to write, with cats sprawled on my keyboard’
The novelist describes tells Nick McGrath that kale smoothies are nice actually, enjoys a spicy margarita and praises her feline assistants Gorgeous and Fabulous
Maureen Freely: ‘Turkey is a place where writers matter’
The author and academic on her exploration of a ‘dark chapter’ in Turkish history, how working as a translator changed her view of the world, and her long friendship with novelist Orhan Pamuk
‘I didn’t think it was possible to be a novelist’: Julian Barnes on literature, loss – and his late friend Martin Amis
The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago
A haunted life: how Danny Robins became Britain’s high priest of the paranormal
Once a struggling comedy writer, he is now a highly successful podcast presenter and playwright. His secret? Ghosts
Porn addicts, vicars, madmen and murderers: Sarah Ogilvie on the Oxford English Dictionary’s unlikely writers
In a 70-year crowdsourcing project, a motley global public sent in the words and definitions that would form the first OED. Ogilvie reveals the shocking stories behind the book’s birth
The new queen of spy fiction: how Ava Glass went from murder reporting to the bestseller list
The author started out covering crime in the US before getting a close-up view of the British security services. She remembers her first dead body and a strange encounter with a fake friend