Oliver Mol on surviving a 10-month migraine: ‘If I didn’t tell this story it would rot inside me’
Suddenly unable to write, the acclaimed young author took a job on the railway. His memoir Train Lord tells of the refuge and reckoning he found there
Malcolm Nance: ‘The Republican party is an insurgent party’
The author, pundit and soldier, recently fighting a war in Ukraine, talks about his incendiary new book and his alarming predictions
‘I was not being loved. I was just a body’: Mena Suvari on surviving sexual abuse, acting and American Beauty
The model and actor’s shocking memoir tells how shame and denial prevented her from telling anyone she was raped when she was 12, which led to another abusive relationship – with an older man – and years of drug addiction
Brenda Hale: ‘There’s absolutely no need to scrap the Human Rights Act’
The former supreme court president on the government’s Rwanda plan, her star status among law students and her latest brooch
Austin Duffy: ‘I wanted to immerse the reader in the terror of being on call’
The novelist and oncologist on capturing the shock of interning in a hospital, how he fits writing around medicine, and being blown away by Fernanda Melchor
Tess Gunty: ‘I was an almost freakishly devout child’
The Indiana-born author on the midwest setting of her acclaimed debut novel, her fascination with rabbits, and the ‘dazzling’ poetry of Tayi Tibble
Why is God a man? The woman who searched the world for a feminist religion
Disillusioned with Pentecostalism, Louise Omer decided to find a religion where women were not subordinate
From Curb to Kurt: Larry David’s director on how his literary hero helped him through personal pain
When Robert Weide read Kurt Vonnegut as a teenager, he never dreamed he would one day make a film about the author – or become a longstanding friend
James Ellroy: ‘I’m trying to have a strong third act. I’m in competition with Philip Roth’
The author of LA Confidential and Black Dahlia on falling in love with a murder victim, not owning a computer and his new true-crime podcast series
Mick Herron: ‘I’m interested in incompetence, things going wrong’
The Slow Horses author on the ‘virtue of limitations’ and drawing life lessons from The Wind in the Willows
‘If I’d not got help, I’d probably be dead’: Jason Kander on PTSD, politics and advice from Obama
He was a rising star in the Democratic party and ‘sorta ran for president’ but, as he recounts in his new book, haunted by his experiences in Afghanistan
Author Édouard Louis: ‘Progressives can’t just sit back and say, “Isn’t the rise of the far right awful?”’
The French literary star talks about growing up in poverty and his mother’s escape from the abusive marriage that haunted his childhood
Sunday with Ardal O’Hanlon: ‘I often don’t get out of my tennis gear’
The comedian tells Roz Lewis about his love of crosswords, newspapers, vegetables and Better Call Sau
Robert Peston: ‘I wore my favourite Gaultier coat to a party conference and somebody nicked it’
ITV’s political editor on coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, belatedly publishing his first novel, and why he longs for a lost England
Ekow Eshun: ‘When I grew up I wanted to be Spider-Man’
The writer, 54, talks about his inspirational parents, the terror of bungee jumping and his unorthodox path to becoming director of the ICA