‘A feeling of deja vu’: author Sergio Ramírez on ex-comrade Ortega and Nicaraguan history repeating

The president has issued a warrant for the country’s greatest living writer’s arrest and customs have seized copies of his new novel about the 2018 uprising

Floppy mohicans and pre-race cider: Gary Devine, the punk fell runner

The Leeds punk rocker lived a double life, interspersing band rehearsals and punk gigs with twice-daily runs, despite the occasional arrest and moshpit injury. A new book tells his story

Ferdinand Mount: ‘You couldn’t not be frightened of Margaret Thatcher!’

The literary editor and novelist on his timely novel exploring the dark arts of the political class

Joe Wicks: ‘Exercise for your mental health and the body will follow’

The nation’s lockdown fitness coach on being glued to social media, emotional eating, and his latest plans to inspire children to get moving

‘Kids need two things – love and education’: how Ian Wright and Musa Okwonga are inspiring young people through fiction

The football star, with help from the author, has turned his experiences of triumph over adversity into a novel for pre-teens, Here the friends discuss fathers, racism and the redemptive power of sport

Lauren Groff: ‘I often get very lonely because my job is very lonely’

The author of Fates and Furies on being endorsed by Barack Obama, the climate crisis and discovering medieval humour for a new novel about 12th-century poet Marie de France

Malorie Blackman: ‘Hope is the spark’

Malorie Blackman, the former children’s laureate, talks to Sian Cain about finishing her Noughts & Crosses series after 20 years, being namechecked by Stormzy and what inspired her to keep going through years of rejection

Susanna Clarke: ‘I’d really ceased to think of myself as a writer’

The author on how the celebration of solitude in her Women’s prize-winning new novel, Piranesi, grew from her experience of a long illness

Hangovers and hang-ups: Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell steps into 30s Soho

The choreographer’s new show brings together lonely souls from the London novels of Patrick Hamilton. Expect regret, fumbling and a hint of mystery

‘America is not a perfect country’: David Rubenstein on Trump, Biden and a nation’s troubled history

In his new book of interviews with influential figures, the billionaire considers the health of US democracy and how it might withstand further attacks

Damon Galgut: ‘The Booker pulls a nasty little trick on you’

The South African novelist on making a pilgrimage to Cormac McCarthy’s home, his youth in apartheid-era Pretoria and being shortlisted twice for the Booker prize

Richard Osman: ‘No one’s born a crime writer. I write crime because I read it’

The Pointless presenter’s debut crime caper sold millions, with movie rights snapped up by Steven Spielberg. Richard Osman talks to Alex Clark about growing up poor, meeting his estranged father and why he wrote his first book in secret

Angelina Jolie: ‘I just want my family to heal’

The actor opens up about why her divorce from Brad Pitt is a human rights issue, escaping Harvey Weinstein and what young activists have taught her

Henry Normal: ‘Comedy’s like sugar. It makes things better but I wouldn’t eat it on its own’

The producer whose TV hits include The Royle Family and Gavin and Stacey on finding the poignancy in life’s little moments, and heading back to the comedy circuit with his poetry

Lauren Elkin: ‘I felt like I was in De Beauvoir’s body’

The author of Flâneuse on the Les Mis fan fiction she wrote in her youth, her new book written on the bus, and the thrill of translating a Simone de Beauvoir novel