The novelist on Trump parlour games, writing about his former flames, and how a brain injury helped him finish his new novel

The novelist on writing lockdown fiction, how a brain injury helped him finish his new novel, and why he worries about his exes

The writer on her new novel and her lifelong quest to write 'the one true book’

The reclusive author’s novel Vineland inspired Oscar frontrunner One Battle After Another, and his satire captures the mood of the moment

The Secret of Secrets, his first novel in eight years, draws on digital-era fears in comically wooden prose

What We Can Know is a satirical vision of a future flooded Britain – and a gripping story of marital duty and guilt

As a new collection of her essays is published, the literary detective and taste-making critic talks plagiarism, gender politics and the art of the perfect putdown

In TonyInterruptor, the singular novelist returns with a witty, hyperactive satire on art and authenticity

How did this 730-page novel concerned with horrific abuse become the book of our times?

The author on being inspired by poets, finding his inner Begbie, and his new Trainspotting sequel, Men in Love

The American author of Flashlight on Korean identity, her love of short narratives, and improving upon The Borrowers

The Scottish author on retiring from the rock’n’roll life and how Martin Amis taught him to push the boundaries of good taste

The celebrated and prolific novelist discusses her latest book, the trend for autofiction and the magic of Ulysses

This unsettling debut novel is part coming-of-age comedy and part psychological horror

The novelist on Northern Ireland’s legacy of violence, and changing his mind about Chekhov

Part novella, part breakup memoir, The Möbius Book is a tricksy, compulsively readable meditation on desire

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s tale of a clandestine affair between two astronauts in the 1980s is a richly drawn page-turner

Two translators and a Nobel-winning novelist illuminate an undervalued skill

Edward St Aubyn’s writing is as astute as ever but this comedy of errors lacks the bite of the Melrose series

The Fleishman Is in Trouble author on the freedom of writing fiction, the perils of telling stories about Jewishness right now – and why she’s happy to write anywhere from the car to the sofa