Jimmy Carr on booze, taxes and being a virgin at 26: ‘Do I sound like an incel elder?’

The controversial comic’s new book is a surprising mix of memoir and self-help. Has having a baby softened his edges? He talks about depression, anxiety, punching down and his friend Sean Lock

Nigel Kennedy on his Classic FM fight: ‘Hendrix is like Beethoven, Vivaldi is more Des O’Connor’

Fresh from a bust-up with ‘Jurassic FM’ over playing Hendrix, the violinist talks about musical snobbery, going on strike and his lifelong regret at turning Duke Ellington down

Eileen Atkins: ‘There are plenty of parts if you’re willing to make yourself look lousy’

From council estate in Tottenham to West End stage, the veteran actor and screenwriter tells her life story in a funny and honest new memoir

‘American democracy will continue to be tested’: Peril author Robert Costa on Trump, the big lie and 2024

Washington Post reporter calls co-authoring book on end of Trump presidency with Watergate legend Bob Woodward a ‘privilege’

David Olusoga: ‘Black people were told that they had no history’

The historian and TV presenter on the story of former slave Olaudah Equiano and the significance of Black History Month

Jonathan Franzen: ‘I just write it like I see it and that gets me in trouble’

Twenty years on from The Corrections, America’s most lauded author is back. But will he put his foot in it again?

Wole Soyinka: ‘This book is my gift to Nigeria’

The Nobel laureate has produced plays, poems, essays and even inspired a pop duo but he hasn’t written a novel for nearly half a century - until now

Parish council Zoom ​star Jackie Weaver:​ ‘Do not underestimate how averse I am to conflict’

The unlikely viral phenomenon on handling sudden fame and dealing with difficult people, including her mother

Mary Beard: ‘If we want to understand what we went through in the pandemic, we need the arts’

The classicist on owning her TV image, dealing with internet trolls, and why her new book on Roman emperors sheds light on our preoccupation with statues

Anthony Doerr: ‘Rather than write what I know, I write what I want to know’

The Pulitzer winner on why his new novel is partly set in medieval Constantinople, the Netflix adaptation of All the Light We Cannot See and his childhood love of the Narnia books

‘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