Jeff VanderMeer: ‘Success changes who I can reach with an environmental message’
The author of the bestselling Southern Reach trilogy talks about taking notes on leaves, the adaptation of Annihilation and his new ecological thriller
Moby on fame and regret: ‘I was an out-of-control, utterly entitled drink and drug addict’
He declared his intention to go away for a while after pointed criticism of his second memoir. But now the musician is back with a new album - and a visceral documentary
Anita Sethi: ‘I wanted something joyous to come out of this horrific experience’
The Mancunian author on becoming a victim of a race-hate crime, walking the Pennine Way – and the memoir that followed
‘I’m 51, I can say what I want’: Leone Ross has overcome her fears
More than 15 years in the writing, Ross’ new novel This One Sky Day is a glorious achievement. So why did it take so long?
If you like salmon, don’t read this: the art duo exposing a booming £1bn market
Farmed salmon can end up deformed, blind, riddled with sea lice and driven to eat each other. Eco art activists Cooking Sections are highlighting their plight – and getting Tate to change its menus
Chris Power: ‘You burn reality to fuel the fiction’
The critic and author on writing about writers, and the political manoeuvres of the Putin era
Into the woods: Sam Lee, the singer who duets with nightingales
Sam Lee built a studio in a wood, found a nightingale to sing with, hooked up a backing band, and livestreamed their concerts. But it is a race against time – for the song of the nightingale may soon be lost for ever
Mel Giedroyc: ‘I’ve never been one of the cool gang. It’s a good feeling’
The comedian and TV presenter on finding the confidence to write a novel after ‘bluffing it’ in TV for 30 years
Reverend Richard Coles: ‘The loss of my husband is immense’
When his partner David died in 2019, the Reverend Richard Coles found himself alone for the first time in 12 years. Here, he talks to Tom Lamont about grief – and the strange moments it brings
Stuart Lawrence: ‘I really looked up to Stephen’
The younger brother of the murdered teenager on his book about his sibling’s life and death, why it took two decades to process his feelings and the traits his son shares with his ‘superhero’
Richard Mabey: ‘Viruses and man-eating tigers and predatory Asian hornets are all part of nature’
A pioneer of British nature writing, Richard Mabey has always been years ahead of his time. So how does he think the pandemic will change our relationship to the natural world?
Maggie O’Farrell: ‘Severe illness refigures you – it’s like passing through a fire’
The Women’s prize winner reflects on the life‑threatening virus that shaped her writing, the superstitions that held her back, and why her prize-winning novel Hamnet speaks to our times
Raymond Antrobus: ‘Deafness is an experience, not a trauma’
The award-winning poet has written his first picture book, Can Bears Ski?, after being unable to find any children’s titles with a deaf protagonist
Dean Koontz: ‘Life is one long suspense novel’
The author, 75, tells James McMahon about escaping into books, becoming politicised as a teacher, and not knowing what will happen tomorrow
Edward St Aubyn: ‘I never read things about myself because I’m so easily crushed’
The novelist on trying to escape Patrick Melrose, recovering from long Covid and putting to rest rumours that he wrote the eulogy for Princess Diana