Leïla Slimani talks to Amia Srinivasan about her latest book Sex and Lies, which departs from fiction to explore the lives of and give a voice to the young women of Morocco, struggling to survive and thrive in a deeply conservative, patriarchal culture.
Ruth Padel is joined by Raymond Antrobus and Anthony Anaxagorou for an evening of readings and conversation about Beethoven, poetry and music.
Will Harris reads from his debut poetry collection, RENDANG, and talks about it to Rachael Allen.
Samantha Harvey talks to Tessa Hadley about her book, The Shapeless Unease, an account of her insomnia.
Francesca Wade tells Alexandra Harris about her latest book, Square Haunting, about the writers and radicals who occupied Mecklenburgh Square in Bloomsbury between the wars.
Alexander Zevin talks to Tariq Ali about his new book, Liberalism at Large, a critical biography of the Economist magazine and an examination of liberalism.
Benjamin Moser talks to Lara Feigel about his biography of Susan Sontag.
Pianist, composer and writer Stephen Hough talks to James Jolly about Rough Ideas, his collected essays covering music, art, literature, people, places and much more.
In her latest book, Astra Taylor argues that democracy is not just in crisis, but that real democracy, inclusive and egalitarian, has never existed. She talks about it to David Graeber.
Diane Williams talks about and reads from her new Collected Stories, with Lara Pawson.
Artist Celia Paul’s memoir, Self-Portrait, is a first-hand account of the trials and rewards of making great art. She talks about it here with curator and art writer Catherine Lampert.
Peter Pomerantsev’s latest book, This is Not Propaganda, travels the world to investigate why we can no longer believe what we say, or say what we believe. He talks about here with Marina Hyde and Carl Miller.
Saidiya Hartman talks to Lola Olufemi about Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments , in which she tells the inspiring and surprising stories of the first emancipated generation of black women in the USA.
Jorge Galán discusses his extraordinary non-fiction novel Noviembre, now published in English as November, which recounts the horrifying murder of six Jesuit priests and two women during the Salvadorian civil war in 1989.
In her latest book Surfacing (Sort of Books), poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie explores what emerges: from the earth, from memory and from the mind. Her travels take her from Arctic Alaska to the sand dunes and machair of Scotland in a quest to discover what archaeology might tell us about the past, the present and the future. Her writing throughout is marked, as always, by an acute attention to the natural world.