Robert Macfarlane: ‘Are we being good ancestors? Mostly, no’
The don of nature writing on the lure of the world underground, staycations with his family, and the planet’s prospects for the future
Ex-congresswoman Katie Hill is ‘still here’ – and she wants the world to know it
The rising Democratic star resigned after an affair was made public and nude photos were published online. With a new book and podcast, she’s ‘not standing down’ any more
Helen Macdonald: ‘It is hard to write about the natural world without writing about grief’
The award-winning writer of H Is for Hawk talks about her post-lockdown tattoo, the climate emergency and living alone in middle-age
Jeremiah Emmanuel: ‘I hope my book gives people the courage to dream’
A member of youth parliament at 11, deputy young mayor at 13, Brixton-raised youth activist Jeremiah Emmanuel is now being published by Stormzy
‘If you’re a dude, you may be tensing up’: the woman making art out of mansplainers
Comedy writer Nicole Tersigni got fed up of men explaining her own jokes back to her. So she paired their patronising comments with classical art – and went viral
Mieko Kawakami: ‘Women are no longer content to shut up’
Traditionalists in Japan hated her feminist novel, but Breasts and Eggs was a huge bestseller. The author talks about taking on male privilege, orientalist cliches … and Haruki Murakami
Allissa Richardson: ‘It’s telling that we’re OK with showing black people dying’
The author and academic on why smartphones have been a game changer in African Americans’ struggle against police brutality – and the ethics of sharing violent images
Jane Birkin: ‘Serge Gainsbourg was never a boring genius’
In her new memoir, the actor and singer delves into decades of diaries addressed to a childhood toy
Sir Paul Nurse: ‘The UK has taken a leap several decades into the past’
The Nobel prize-winning scientist on Covid-19 and the burden of Brexit
Vivian Gornick: ‘Thinking is the hardest thing in the world’
The critic and memoirist talks about her fears for #MeToo, why she feels ‘shaky’ about being American – and being rediscovered in her 80s
Rick Perlstein: ‘If you’re not writing about the berserk, you’re not writing about America’
The historian has completed his epic on the rise of the US right – just in time for Donald Trump’s attempt to hold on to his throne
Ottessa Moshfegh: ‘Americans are really good storytellers and really good liars’
Famous for writing about isolation, the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation talks about her new novel, chronic pain and growing up as the child of migrants in America
Tsitsi Dangarembga: ‘I am afraid. There have been abductions’
Four days after the Zimbabwean writer and film-maker made the Booker longlist, she was arrested. She talks about protest, Africa’s film industry and her hopes for her country
Katie Mack: ‘I didn’t anticipate being in a pop song when I went off to study physics’
The cosmologist, author and Twitter sensation on ‘heat death’, getting heckled by Stephen Hawking – and being name-checked on a No 1 album
Sarah Moss: ‘Writing about the natural world is not an optional extra’
The Ghost Wall writer on how her darkly comic new novel was inspired by climate emergency and her Brexit dismay