‘Mind-boggling’: Johnny Marr on his 53 favourite guitars – and the one Noel Gallagher smashed

They were used to write Smiths classics like Still Ill and What Difference Does It Make? As the star publishes a coffee-table book telling the stories of his most adored guitars, he remembers the loan to Noel that made him give up booze

The woman who walked alone across the desert: what Robyn Davidson learned by risking everything

In her 20s, Davidson trekked 1,700 miles through the Australian wilderness. This led to the bestselling book Tracks and global fame. Half a century later she has written about what motivated her – including the tragic early death of her mother

‘It’s lonely being a Jewish critic of Israel’ – Nathan Thrall on his book about a Palestinian father’s tragedy

As the Israel-Hamas war escalates, the US author says his book tour is fraught with the possibility of misunderstanding

Sunday with Sue Perkins: ‘My brain needs to be set challenges or it goes into mischief’

The comedian and presenter on living with Tiggy the staffy and the joy of electronica

Teju Cole: ‘Being avant garde isn’t about being unreadable’

The prize-winning novelist and essayist on why he set his new book just before the pandemic, embracing the possibility of failure – and being ambushed by Hemingway

Doon Mackichan: ‘Before meetings I head-bang to Led Zeppelin’

The actor, writer and comedian, 61, on why she’d like to live in the stone age, cold-water swimming and why money doesn’t make you happy

‘If you don’t want to have sex, it’s not like the relationship’s over’: Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch get personal

He’s the ex-England striker who wants a quiet life. She’s the model on a hair trigger. Now, the husband and wife team have turned unlikely agony aunts

Roxane Gay: ‘I’m trying to move further left because that’s the only way that we’re gonna achieve change’

The author and cultural commentator on racism, prison reform, weight loss drugs, violence and her idols

Kerry Washington on uncovering a family secret: ‘It’s exhausting to put on a mask to maintain appearances’

She went from straight-A student to the star of Scandal, but always had a nagging doubt about her place in the world. Then the actor agreed to go on a US genealogy show - and discovered her own story wasn’t quite as it seemed …

‘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