Maggie O’Farrell: ‘My children’s feedback could be pretty brutal’
The author of the prize-winning Hamnet on her first children’s book, conquering her stammer, and the advantages of living with a fellow novelist
Mary Gaitskill: ‘The menopause had tremendous creative energy for me’
The novelist, 66, tells Megan Nolan about knowing how to behave, the terrors of climate change and appearing in her students’ dreams
Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘My experience of East Germany is changed by every book I read’
The prize-winning writer on her new memoir Not a Novel, growing up near the Berlin Wall and her support for refugees
Tina Turner: ‘When I was in the zone, it was like I was flying’
She was a rock’n’roll powerhouse who electrified audiences worldwide. As Tina Turner releases a guide to happiness, she talks to playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler) about how she found the strength to overcome illness, abuse and tragedy
Alex Wheatle: ‘I have nightmarish moments where my past comes back and hits me’
The prize-winning author’s life is now an episode of Steve McQueen’s hit series Small Axe. He talks about working on the project and his latest novel, based on a Jamaican slave uprising
‘He understands Washington’: Joe Scarborough finds echoes of Truman in Biden
The Morning Joe host, author of a new book on Harry S Truman, sees parallels in the two presidents’ efforts to rebuild
James Fox: ‘Keith Richards has a fantastic memory’
The ghostwriter behind the memoirs of Keith Richards and David Bailey on difficult subjects
Camilla Pang: ‘You have to acknowledge the hilarity of what it is to be human’
Prize-winning author Camilla Pang talks about her autism and ADHD diagnoses and her desire to challenge myths about neurodiversity
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom: ‘Ten years ago, no one talked about a cultural problem in comedy’
The writer-star has had a baby, lost a close friend and published a memoir in lockdown. She talks about the trouble with male comedy writers – and why she wants to make a sketch show all about the clitoris
Ralph Steadman: ‘We’re really living in a hell of a year, aren’t we?’
The outspoken artist talks about his new book arriving in an ‘absolutely weird’ year and why Trump remains ‘the worst person in our known history’
Stella Dadzie: ‘Women resisted slavery at every stage of the journey’
The feminist writer on racism in her London childhood, her new book about female slaves, and the part Ghana played in shaping her identity
Booker winner Douglas Stuart: ‘I owe Scotland everything’
The author of Shuggie Bain talks about growing up in Glasgow in the 80s, the dangers of ‘poverty safari’ and what he’ll do now he has won the prestigious literary prize
‘It’s time for white women to listen’: writers V and Aja Monet on what will replace The Vagina Monologues
The playwright and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler changed the world with The Vagina Monologues. Her next project hopes to be just as empowering – but this time she’s listening to, not telling, the stories
Jason Reynolds: ‘Snoop Dogg once told white folks: ‘I know you hate me. But your kids don’t.’ That’s how I feel’
America’s ambassador for young people’s literature talks about touring Trump country, facing down racism and why there’s no such thing as a bad kid
‘I wanted to discover the starting point of video games’: Edward Ross on new book Gamish
In his non-fiction graphic novel, the writer and comic-book artist takes us on a revealing exploration of the timeline of games – and why we play them