‘It’s inequality that kills’: Naomi Klein on the future of climate justice

Canadian author and professor of climate justice cautiously hails loss and damage agreements at Cop27

Amy Bloom: ‘I have a minor interest in gardening, but really it’s people’

The US writer and psychotherapist on helping her husband to die and finding the humour in writing about it – and why she’s now spending more time with waves and sunsets

Writer Robert Douglas-Fairhurst: ‘The less the body works, the more you appreciate any bit that still does’

The writer and professor of English literature on being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and the more unexpected ways his life has been transformed

Kevin Jared Hosein: ‘The 1940s in Trinidad was like the wild west’

The teacher and writer on a golden age for Caribbean writers, editing in bed, and his encounter with VS Naipaul

Novelist Tom Bullough on his XR arrest – and what Welsh saints can teach us about the climate crisis

The writer is passionate about the environment, and Wales, and has fed that passion into a book that attends to ancient lives alongside our own

‘I have sad thoughts every day. I try not to be overcome by them’: Michael Rosen on coping with the death of his son

He is much loved for his daffy humour, but poet Michael Rosen’s new memoir, Getting Better, is an arrestingly honest account of devastating loss. He talks to Alex Moshakis about feeling sad, and why he’s no longer ‘carrying an elephant’

Otherlands author Thomas Halliday: ‘Some people have insisted on reading the book backwards’

The paleobiologist and author of Foyles’ nonfiction book of 2022 on Earth’s deep past, the joys of the British Library, and how early four-limbed vertebrates helped him find his feet

Just the three of us: could our friendship survive having the same lover?

Lauren John Joseph reveals a remarkable and moving story of love, death and enduring friendship

LBJ OK? Historian Mark Lawrence on a president resurgent

Fifty years after Lyndon Johnson died, the director of the 36th president’s library discusses his politics and progressive ideals

Charlie Higson: ‘I hope to be so unwound I can just lie on the sofa’

The comedian and author on gorging on granola, long lie-ins, Zen housework and feeling totally relaxed

Aleksandar Hemon: ‘A book isn’t a car – not everything has to work’

The Sarajevo-born author on his new historical novel’s multilingual sensibility, screenwriting for The Matrix sequel and pretending to be Kevin Keegan

Nigerian author Ayòbámi Adébáyò: ‘I don’t want to be read for some kind of anthropology’

Six years after her acclaimed debut Stay With Me, the writer is back with a novel that shines a light on the social inequalities of her homeland. She talks about motherhood, politics and marriage

‘Joe Biden has been constantly underestimated’: Chris Whipple on his White House book

Fight of His Life author on Kamala Harris’s struggles and growth, Afghanistan, a strong second year … and if Biden will run again

TS Eliot prize winner Anthony Joseph: how poetry helped me love my absent father

The writer on switching from rock to poetry and how Sonnets for Albert explores his relationship with a missing parent who became an almost ‘mythological figure’

Rock’s best kept secret: Tony King on life with John Lennon, Elton John and Freddie Mercury

He held Mercury’s hand in hospital, retrieved Lennon from a cocaine escapade with David Bowie, and was upbraided by Keith Richards for smoking a joint. Now the Zelig of the music world is looking back