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A life in ...7 September 2018Gary Shteyngart: 'As a Queens boy, Trump was very impressive'As a Russian immigrant to the US, the author grew up looking up to Gordon Gekko and Donald Trump –

now, he hopes his satire about a hedge-fund manager stops people from becoming bankers7 Sept 2018 13.44 CEST…… comments31 August 2018Virginie Despentes: ‘What is going on in men’s heads when

women’s pleasure has become a problem?’The wild child author of Baise-Moi and former sex worker has completed a trilogy, Vernon Subutex, which has secured her renown as a ‘rock’n’roll

Zola’31 Aug 2018 11.59 CEST…… comments18 August 2018Miriam Toews: ‘I needed to write about these women. I could have been one of them’Between 2005 and 2009, more than 130 Mennonite women

were drugged and raped by men in the community. In new novel Women Talking, the ex-Mennonite tells their story18 Aug 2018 12.00 CEST10 August 2018Belinda Bauer, the crime author up for the

Booker: 'If it’s tokenism, I don’t care'She hadn’t read a crime novel before writing her debut at 45. Now, the author of Snap talks risk-taking, genre snobbery and not needing to know

whodunnit10 Aug 2018 12.00 CEST…… comments29 June 2018Robert Harris: ‘I'm not sure you can be the world’s superpower and remain a democracy’The books interview: As the stage adaptation of

his Cicero trilogy transfers to the West End, Robert Harris explains why the Roman politician’s story speaks to our age of populism29 Jun 2018 10.00 CEST…… comments22 June 2018Dave Eggers:

‘I always picture Trump hiding under a table’The books interview: The Circle author talks about Facebook, why immigrants are not the enemy and his first novel for children22 Jun 2018 13.00

CEST…… comments16 June 2018Richard Powers: 'We're completely alienated from everything else alive'After writing novels on artificial intelligence, neuroscience and genetics, Powers’ has

turned to trees. While on a hike through the Great Smoky Mountains, he talks about environmentalism and not having children16 Jun 2018 11.00 CEST…… comments1 June 2018Meg Wolitzer: ‘You go

for what feels human, and it transcends a political moment’The books interview: After 12 novels and two film adaptations, is Meg Wolitzer about to become a household name? She talks the long

game – and her timely new bestseller1 Jun 2018 13.00 CEST…… comments25 May 2018Sheila Heti: ‘There's a sadness in not wanting the things that give others their life’s meaning’The books

interview: Her deeply personal first novel divided critics, her new one explores the choice not to have children. Sheila Heti talks about self-belief and the joy of failure25 May 2018 13.00

CEST…… comments19 March 2018Diana Evans: 'There's a ruthlessness in me towards writing'The books interview: Diana Evans’s new novel is a soulful portrait of family life as Obama came to

power. She talks motherhood, her chair-buying habit and the ‘particular solitude’ of being a lone twin19 Mar 2018 08.00 CET…… comments2 March 2018Critic turned author James Wood: ‘So

metimes I think I’ve lost my nerve. I’m not slaying people any more’As a reviewer, James Wood earned a fearsome reputation. With his own novel Upstate landing on critics’ desks, he talks

about writing, family and his ‘buoyant’ disposition2 Mar 2018 13.00 CET…… comments2 February 2018Hilton Als: ‘I had this terrible need to confess, and I still do it. It’s a bid to be

loved’The books interview: The critic and author of White Girls on the ‘endlessly fascinating and tiresome race subject’ and taking Rachel Weisz as his date to pick up his Pulitzer prize2

Feb 2018 13.11 CET…… comments26 January 2018Leïla Slimani on her shocking bestseller, Lullaby: 'Who can really say they know their nanny?'Her murderous nanny thriller gripped France, winning

its top literary prize and the attention of President Macron. With Lullaby now out in English, the author shares her thoughts on motherhood, #MeToo and being a Muslim in France26 Jan 2018

13.00 CET…… comments20 January 2018Margaret Atwood: ‘I am not a prophet. Science fiction is really about now’The TV adaptation of her dystopian classic The Handmaid’s Tale captured the

political moment. Ahead of a new series, Atwood talks bestsellers, bonnets and the backlash against her views on #MeToo20 Jan 2018 12.00 CET…… comments12 January 2018Gail Honeyman: ‘I didn’t

want Eleanor Oliphant to be portrayed as a victim’12 Jan 2018 12.59 CET…… commentsJim Crace: ‘I’ve never had much luck with Proust, Tolkien or Trollope’12 Jan 2018 11.00 CET…… comments6

January 2018Katherine Rundell: ‘The only time kids fully understand the world is when they read’The winner of the Costa children’s award on academia, adventure and her wild childhood in

Zimbabwe6 Jan 2018 11.58 CET…… comments29 December 2017John Banville: ‘The Catechism had all the answers. If only it were all true’The novelist and screenwriter on Beckett, Nabokov and

failing to finish a single one of the novels of Jane Austen29 Dec 2017 11.00 CET…… comments22 December 2017Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler: ‘The Gruffalo’s not a curse … it can be a

burden’The author and illustrator on their long partnership and what Brexit would have meant for The Gruffalo22 Dec 2017 10.00 CET…… comments15 December 2017Diana Athill: ‘Enjoy yourself as

much as you can without doing any damage to other people’The former editor on regrets, the advantages of old age and why she’s still writing at 10015 Dec 2017 13.02 CET…… commentsAbout 423

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