‘It’s on the tape’: Bob Woodward on Donald Trump’s ‘criminal behavior’
The great Washington Post reporter has published 20 interviews he conducted with the then president – who is now running again
Melvin Burgess: ‘The Norse myths are full of sex and violence’
The author of YA classic Junk on the eternal allure of baddies, being a trickster god – and his first book for adults
Heartstopper author Alice Oseman: ‘If you don’t have sex and romance, you feel like you haven’t achieved’
The writer and illustrator on turning her ‘weird hobby’ into a bestselling YA series and Netflix hit, the importance of asexual representation and lessons from her fans on love bites
‘Taking life advice from John Donne would be disastrous’ – the roof-walking, trapeze-flying Baillie Gifford winner
Katherine Rundell has just become the youngest ever winner of the prestigious literary prize – for a biography of ‘poet of desire’ John Donne. Why is she giving the £50,000 away? Because, she says, no man is an island
‘It’s relatable’ … The Crown’s Emma Corrin on playing gender-swapping, time-travelling Orlando
The actor and the director Michael Grandage talk about how relevant their staging of Virginia Woolf’s classic work of gender fluidity feels – and remember their own queer battles
Patti Smith: ‘I am who I am with all my flaws’
At 75, the punk poet, singer, artist and author talks candidly about life, loss, loneliness and her acclaimed new photography project
John Banville: ‘There’s been a creeping retreat into infantilism’
The Booker prize winner on why revisiting his books makes him sick, killing off his crime-writing pseudonym, and the new wave of Irish novelists
Jessie Burton: ‘I don’t think I tried an apple or an orange until I was 15’
The author on childhood fruit fears and the role of food in her novels, The Miniaturist and The House of Fortune
Nobel peace laureate Maria Ressa: ‘In 2024, democracy could fall off a cliff’
The journalist, who is facing prison in the Philippines, talks about the dark side of social media and why truth is being eroded in politics
‘It was exciting to create these beastly, huge, grotesque women’: the authors gender-swapping the Greek myths
With its heroic female leads and men who long to be fathers, Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett’s new book looks at modern mores through an ancient lens
‘I came second in everything’: Martin Kemp on Spandau Ballet, George Michael and stepping out of his brother’s shadow
The bass player publishes his third book this month, reflecting on life in one of the 80s biggest bands. He talks about recovering from two brain tumours, acting and why he would like to apologise to Tony Hadley
‘A more anarchic city’: Darryl Pinckney on New York literary life in the 1970s
The novelist’s memoir evokes the ambition and thrill of writing alongside Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin and his mentor Elizabeth Hardwick
Philologist Irene Vallejo: ‘Alexander the Great’s library was the first step towards the internet’
The Spanish writer on how Papyrus, her bestselling history of literature in the ancient world, changed her life at a difficult moment, and why it’s a mistake to undervalue books
‘How I became a sexual creature’ – Paul Newman reveals all in newly discovered memoir
He was Hollywood’s Mr Perfect. But in his astonishing posthumous autobiography, the star faces up to his alcohol problems, his fatherly failings – and reveals the secret of his sex appeal. We speak to his daughter about the revelations
Holly Throsby on her ‘anti-crime’ novel, inspired by the Lynette Dawson murder investigation
The musician turned novelist’s latest book came from a tiny detail in the high-profile case, and the regional Australia that she now calls home