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.
ByThe Booker Prize-winning author on political fiction, the refugee crisis and the “unmistakable” timeliness of his dystopian novel Prophet Song.
ByThe psychologist was a feminist icon for her work on how gender shapes our morality. But now, in her eighties,…
ByThe historian on eviscerating Boris Johnson, making students cry, and why classics is “not just for posh people”.
ByThe singer who rose to fame with her band Antony and the Johnsons on her mentor Lou Reed, transphobia and…
ByThe Nobel laureate on abortion, the “shame” of her upbringing and forging a new working-class literature.
ByThe “father of dub poetry” on political verse, institutional racism and growing up as a member of the “rebel generation”.
ByThe director of the acclaimed series on Britain’s blindness to the consequences of war.
ByThe writer has stayed vital through constant movement and insisting on “living in the world as it is, not as…
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