‘We cannot live without love’: when Dr Love met Dr Loneliness

Stephanie and John Cacioppo were two neuroscientists specialising in love and loneliness. When they married, they put theory into practice. But when John died suddenly, would her science save her?

William Brewer: ‘The Red Arrow isn’t a drug book, but…’

The American author on how his own experience of psychedelic therapy sparked his debut novel, and his poems about the opioid epidemic

Camille Kouchner’s Familia Grande: ‘I knew my stepfather’s games… but with my brother, too?’

Kouchner’s memoir about Olivier Duhamel’s abuse of her twin brother sent the French cultural elite into crisis. She talks about her parents’ hedonistic generation – and the secret she could no longer keep

My brother the superhero: how the death of comic book legend Steve Dillon inspired a creative awakening

Glyn Dillon designed costumes for Star Wars, while his brother Steve created the Preacher comic strip. When Steve died at 54, Glyn bought a ladder and some vast canvases - and poured his grief into painting

‘I turned up as a snotty kid who looked right’: Tom Felton’s life after Harry Potter

Tom Felton struck gold when he was cast as Draco Malfoy, the evil schoolboy wizard, in the first Harry Potter film. Twenty years on, he’s still coming to terms with the franchise’s success – but first he’s on the West End stage in a ghost story that’s giving him the jitters

Sara Cox: ‘There were some tears, some “I can’t do this”’

The DJ and writer on coming to terms with being a novelist, the appeal of middle-aged men and the book that broke her heart

Morgan Levine: ‘Only 10-30% of our lifespan is estimated to be due to genetics’

The Yale scientist explains her research into biological and chronological age – and why she’s joined a $3bn startup funded by the likes of Jeff Bezos

Tom Tilley on growing up ‘hardline’ Pentecostal: ‘It was weird – it was speaking in tongues’

After leaving the church in his early 20s, the former Hack host spent more than a decade making up for lost time in the party scene. Now a father, he’s looking for meaning without religion

Short story writer Deesha Philyaw: ‘I wanted to challenge the church’s obsession with sex’

The author of the acclaimed The Secret Life of Church Ladies on the Black American Christian community, sexual shame and coming to terms with her queerness

Screenwriter Abi Morgan: ‘I am absolutely the same, but profoundly changed’

The acclaimed creator of The Split and The Iron Lady has endured three gruelling years of loss and illness. Now she’s written it all up, and it reads like a thriller

Emma Smith: ‘Books do extraordinary work, but we can overstate their importance’

The Shakespeare critic and author on her new history of books and readers, and how it’s made her think about the contents of our shelves

Children’s author Simon James Green: ‘I just wanted to show LGBT+ kids that it’s not all doom and gloom’

The gay writer who was banned from visiting a London school discusses why young LGBT+ people need representation more than ever

Evelyn Araluen wins $60,000 Stella prize: ‘I was one paycheck away from complete poverty’

In the first year poetry was eligible to enter the Australian literary award, the debut poet has won for her collection Dropbear. She’s thrilled – but says prizes ‘cannot be the way we sustain the arts’

‘Life is short, so you have to get on with it’: AF Steadman on unicorns, leaving law and her record-breaking book deal

Eight years after her vision of a mythical beast, the author is about to publish the first novel in the Skandar Smith trilogy. She talks about childhood and taking a chance on a dream career

‘A PhD in my brother’: Valerie Biden Owens on the Joe she knows

In her newly published memoir, Growing Up Biden, the president’s sister pays tribute in a moving portrait of sibling love