Susanna Moore: ‘Jack Nicholson used to call me Miss Discreet’
The In the Cut author on telling her incredible life story in a new memoir that reads like a who’s who of Hollywood’s golden age
Isabel Colegate: ‘I don’t think you go about feeling proud of your own books’
The Shooting Party’s author on the reissue of her Orlando trilogy, her obsession with class and why she loves a ‘nice fat’ history
Max Brooks: ‘Pandemics come in predictable cycles. If I’m the smartest guy in the room, we’re in big trouble’
The World War Z author talks about how science fiction turned him into a disaster expert, Donald Trump, and growing up with parents Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft
Stuart Evers: ‘We either look into the gutter or at the upper classes’
The award-winning novelist on his debt to ‘kitchen-sink’ dramas, why the family is everyone’s first taste of politics, and the paranoia of the nuclear age
‘Milli Violini’: I was a fake violinist in a world-class miming orchestra
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman spent years touring America in an orchestra of gifted players who mimed to CDs. She relives their bizarre performances – and her eventual collapse
Ariel Dorfman: ‘Reading together is a way of enjoying new experiences’
The author on walking in forests, re-reading the classics in bed and the pleasure of living near his son
Barton Gellman: ‘The Assange precedent is dangerous’
The US journalist talks about being hacked by intelligence services, his dealings with whistleblower Edward Snowden, and why he loves detective fiction
Robin Wall Kimmerer: ‘People can’t understand the world as a gift unless someone shows them how’
Her book Braiding Sweetgrass has been a surprise bestseller. The nature writer talks about her fight for plant rights, and why she hopes the pandemic will increase human compassion for the natural world
‘Film is just one way to tell a story’: Duncan Jones on his comic book sequel to Moon
The writer-director turned to comics because his next story would have been too costly to film. He and his ‘Yoda’ Alex de Campi explain their very timely project
David Nicholls: ‘I crave to see people touching, kissing and fighting on screen’
As his novel The Understudy is turned into a radio play starring Stephen Fry, the writer talks about his own failed acting career – and what dramas will be like after the coronavirus
Miranda July: ‘There’s so much anarchistic potential for self-invention right now’
The film-maker on her new movie about con artists, the trials of home-schooling, and how Roseanne Barr inspired her own early rebellion
Daniel Mason: ‘I really don’t want to write about my patients’
The US novelist and professor of psychiatry on how writing and medicine inform each other and why reading is good for mental health
Ruth Hunt: ‘At university I found other girls who liked girls, cheap alcohol and smoking’
The LGBTQ+ campaigner, 40, tells Michael Segalov about growing up gay, becoming a baroness and still longing for a cigarette
Natural talent: the 16 year-old writer taking the world by storm
Dara McAnulty is being hailed by the likes of Robert Macfarlane and Chris Packham as a bright new voice. He talks about life with autism and finding peace in the wilds of Northern Ireland
Will coronavirus lead to fairer societies? Thomas Piketty explores the prospect
Economist discusses the effects of pandemic on economies, societies and globalisation