Greece’s former finance minister on talking politics with his 12-year-old daughter, Europe’s capitalist crisis, and his fears for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
Editorial: The Reagan-Thatcher revolution changed society’s beliefs about taxes for the worse. It’s a good thing the IMF agrees with Labour that we need a rethink if we want economic growth shared fairly
The Da Vinci Code author’s latest caper – partly set in Barcelona – is likely to struggle for attention as Spanish readers follow a rather more urgent story
Rochefort, who scored a major international success in The Hairdresser’s Husband, was also cast as Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Cervantes adaptation
Coates’s eloquent polemics on the black experience in America brought him fame and the admiration of Barack Obama. Here he talks about the rise of white supremacy – and why Trump was a logical conclusion
A literary tour of North Korea shines a light on the absurd realities and grim horrors of life in this cruel and capricious regime over the past 30 years
Loose canon: A century after the rise of the Bolsheviks, the young are reading Karl Marx again – and faith in the superstitious beliefs that underpin market economies is faltering
Author Valeria Luiselli began working as a volunteer interpreter at New York’s federal immigration court in 2015. She has since heard many disturbing accounts of unaccompanied children travelling through her home country, Mexico
At the Dublin theatre festival, Shakespeare is reunited with his son, Sebastian Barry’s prisoners look back, Ibsen’s Nora lands in a dystopian future and Anu Productions deliver an urgent tale of torture