Sally Rooney: “We’re trapped in a cultural moment”
The author of Intermezzo talks to Fintan O’Toole about living with patriarchy, writing good sex, and the post-religious world.
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The celebrity interviewer on men speaking over her, her most interesting subject, and entering her ninth decade.
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Robert Harris: “Great politicians are like novelists”
The writer on Keir Starmer, Labour’s “grim” inheritance and his desire to reinvent the past.
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Pet Shop Boys: “Labour could do with an infusion of idealism”
The pop duo on Keir Starmer, the royals, Marvel and the word “queer”.
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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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