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Books + Interviews

October 2026

  • Helen Garner smiles gently, standing before a tree trunk outdoors

    ‘Being hated is very bracing’: Helen Garner on surviving three marriages and being called a ‘rotten feminist’

  • A man with a wicker costume holding a woman in a grey gown in front of other people dressed in medieval costumes

    ‘I saw the script and went: oooh!’ Olivia Colman and Alexander Skårsgard on their steamy folk-horror movie Wicker

  • A woman with a curly hair wearing a blue shirt with a mirror behind her

    The ideas interview
    ‘There is no inevitable dystopia’: Jeanette Winterson on AI and the future of humanity

  • Caroline Hirons wearing a bright-blue silk trouser suit with a pink stripe around the cuffs, standing against a pale-pink background with her right hand in her pocket and her left arm by her side, smiling at the camera

    The Q&A
    Caroline Hirons: ‘My celebrity crush? Colin Farrell. I hope he reads this – I hear he likes an older woman’

  • ‘Our third date was at Buckingham Palace’: Marlon James and Nicholas Boggs on life as a literary power couple

  • ‘I struggle to see myself as someone special’: Sandra Hüller on being the star of four - or, possibly, five - of the year’s biggest films

  • ‘I’d consider replacing one of my children’: Taika Waititi on robot kids, his cheese-o-meter and Klara and the Sun

  • Standup Jon Richardson on turning his dark teenage diaries into a tearjerking memoir: ‘I couldn’t sugarcoat those years’

  • The little-known friendship between Nina Simone and Langston Hughes

  • ‘It speaks very poorly of us as a society’: Lawrence Wright on his book on death row and redemption

  • ‘We tried to levitate the Pentagon’: the almost unbelievable life of Ed Sanders, trickster god of the US counterculture

  • ‘Is there any value in writing a story in a time of chaos?’: novelist Elif Shafak on her creative crisis

  • ‘People’s dignity, and democracy, is at stake’: meet the economist ditching ideology for reality

  • ‘To succeed meant to leave’: inside the jolting film about Brummie estate kids knocked flying by demolition

  • Deep dive
    ‘Try to eat really well, 80% of the time’: nutrition expert says healthy eating is easier than you think

  • ‘We were not going to let this rapist destroy our lives’: how one couple came to terms with a devastating attack

  • ‘The crime fiction I’m interested in is political’: Ian Rankin on his new novel about the super-rich

  • ‘There is no secret agenda’: Nara Smith on home-making absolutely everything, raising four kids at 25 – and why she’s definitely not a tradwife

  • ‘People forgot I existed’: Audrey Niffenegger on taking 14 years to write a sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife

  • Mao’s Last Dancer Li Cunxin on his long-awaited follow-up: ‘I don’t think my publisher expected it to take 14 years!’

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