Paul Lynch: “Nothing kills a book quicker than a writer with a message”
The Booker Prize-winning author on political fiction, the refugee crisis and the “unmistakable” timeliness of his dystopian novel Prophet Song.
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Carol Gilligan: why I changed my mind on the gender binary
The psychologist was a feminist icon for her work on how gender shapes our morality. But now, in her eighties,…
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Mary Beard: “Learning to think should be destabilising”
The historian on eviscerating Boris Johnson, making students cry, and why classics is “not just for posh people”.
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Anohni: “There needs to be a reckoning”
The singer who rose to fame with her band Antony and the Johnsons on her mentor Lou Reed, transphobia and…
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Annie Ernaux’s acts of revenge
The Nobel laureate on abortion, the “shame” of her upbringing and forging a new working-class literature.
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Linton Kwesi Johnson: “The police declared war on black youth”
The “father of dub poetry” on political verse, institutional racism and growing up as a member of the “rebel generation”.
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Once Upon a Time in Iraq’s James Bluemel: “The invasion caused mass chaos”
The director of the acclaimed series on Britain’s blindness to the consequences of war.
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Jeanette Winterson wants more life
The writer has stayed vital through constant movement and insisting on “living in the world as it is, not as…
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