Anne Sebba Q&A: “A spark of humanity is enough to ignite the will to live”
The author on Ernest Shackleton as maverick and a year in Rome in 1972.
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Gabriel Weston Q&A: “I would love to experience not living in the patriarchy”
The doctor and writer on swimming pool maintenance and resisting nostalgia.
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Laila Lalami Q&A: “Power is a dynamic. It doesn’t flow in just one direction”
The essayist and novelist on Spanish history, Aretha Franklin and meeting her heroes
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Abdulrazak Gurnah Q&A: “What bugs me? The smug self-regard of the powerful”
The writer on Primo Levi and his grandchildren’s art.
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Eimear McBride Q&A: “I have a face only Lyubov Popova could love”
The novelist on American cinema and the dream of being an antiquarian bookseller.
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Lissa Evans: “Being in the sea is like being cradled by a benign goddess”
The author, TV director and producer on Father Ted and fan-girling on suffragettes.
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Judith Butler Q&A: “I’d like more joy, more music, a new political regime”
The philosopher and gender theorist on Hegel, Kafka, and getting lost at the circus.
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Adam Zeman Q&A: “Life is a fatal condition but creativity is limitless”
The neurologist on the science of subjectivity, and the irony of sophisticated tech that makes simple jobs harder.
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