A greener Marx? Kohei Saito on connecting communism with the climate crisis

Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking

‘Why can’t we be the hero?’: George Webster on acting, ambition, romance and big breaks

He is a CBeebies star, a Bafta winner, an author and an ambassador for people with Down’s syndrome. Is there anything George can’t do? Well, there is one thing, says his mother …

‘I’ll always be a bad feminist!’: Roxane Gay on love, success – and upsetting Piers Morgan

The writer, academic and cultural critic has had a tumultuous few years, full of love, grief and phenomenal creativity. She discusses women’s rights, writer’s block and why every day with her wife remains an adventure

When your ex gets the cat: the writer who divorced in her 20s – and turned it into a runaway bestseller

The Schitt’s Creek screenwriter Monica Heisey discusses her debut novel, the similarities between heartbreak and food poisoning, and why failure doesn’t need to make you feel terrible

‘I’m a nepo baby’: Jon Snow on class, sanity and Margaret Thatcher

Two years ago, Snow left Channel 4 News, after anchoring the show for more than three decades. Now he has written a memoir. He discusses boarding school misery, family connections and why Boris Johnson is a chancer

Em Strang: ‘Right now we’re living through a time of incredible misogyny’

The award-winning poet on writing in the voice of a convicted killer, her excavation of the masculine psyche and why she wants to read less

Eleanor Catton: ‘I felt so much doubt after winning the Booker’

In 2013, at 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever Booker winner with The Luminaries. She talks about adapting the novel for screen, being shut out of her native New Zealand and why it has taken 10 years to write a follow-up

‘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