Michelle Gayle: ‘They said don’t leave EastEnders – I never regretted it’

From Grange Hill to the West End, via Eurovision and the Brit awards, the star has built multiple careers. She talks about stage-school pressure, TV diversity and playing Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

‘I could do with more readers!’ – Abdulrazak Gurnah on winning the Nobel prize for literature

His lyrical novels about exile and loss enjoy critical acclaim but modest sales. Now he’s Zanzibar’s second most famous son – and £840,000 richer. The writer talks about racism on British buses, Priti Patel, and why books have to entertain

Bobby Gillespie: ‘For the first 10 years of my life, I lived in a Glasgow tenement … that stuff stays with you’

On the eve of the publication of his memoir, the Primal Scream frontman talks to friend and author Irvine Welsh about his working-class upbringing

Succession star Brian Cox: ‘I’m enjoying this. It’s like confession…’

In a lively and wide-ranging conversation, the revered actor talks Hollywood rivalries, Scottish independence – and the future of the hit TV show

‘A xenophobic autocrat’: Adam Schiff on Trump’s threat to democracy

The California Democrat’s new memoir, Midnight in Washington, examines his life before politics as well as his leading roles in impeachment and other dramas on Capitol Hill

Sunday with Joanne Harris: ‘Two breakfasts, hobbit-style’

The author tells Samantha Rea about a pleasant day drinking tea, talking and reading, maybe watching an episode of Inspector Montalbano

Nadifa Mohamed: ‘Modern-day Britain is intense’

The Somali-born writer talks about her Booker-shortlisted novel and ‘broken hearts syndrome’

Spies, lies and doublethink: Lea Ypi on growing up in Europe’s last communist state

She believed her parents loved Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist regime. But once Albania’s communist system collapsed, Lea Ypi began to realise nothing was as it seemed …

‘I turned against Keisha the Sket for a long time’: Jade LB on returning to her noughties viral story

The author was just 13 when her anonymous tales of a London teenager spread across the UK. More than a decade on, Stormzy’s Merky books imprint is bringing Keisha back

Ballerina Georgina Pazcoguin: ‘We owe it to younger dancers not to stay silent’

In her new memoir, New York City Ballet’s first Asian-American soloist speaks out about racism and sexual bullying in ballet. Now she wants to overhaul the industry from within

‘I just wanted to write something funny for my friends’: Torrey Peters on Detransition, Baby

Her novel caused a storm when it was longlisted for the Women’s prize, and is one of the most talked-about of the year. She talks to a writer and trans dad about LGBTQ+ families and the ‘Sex and the City problem’

‘I saw something in Bruce Springsteen that nobody else saw’: the world according to Stevie Van Zandt

The Boss’s trusty sideman has many plans – from saving central America to TV Hogmanay at the Playboy Mansion – and he’s more than happy to share his rock wisdom

‘My intimacy with Simone de Beauvoir was unique… it was love’

As an autobiographical novel by the writer is published for the first time in English, her adopted daughter Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir talks about their bond

Paul Auster: ‘It’s distress that generates art’

The novelist on his latest work, an 800-page tribute to the American author Stephen Crane, and why the greatest writers are monomaniacs

Stephanie Alexander on eating with pleasure: ‘My remit is to go on trying to convince people’

She may play companion to half a million Australian cooks, but Stephanie Alexander still fears for our culinary future