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Ellen Peirson-Hagger
The International Booker-winning author on ephemera, why her childhood belongs in a museum, and the Brothers Grimm
Thu, 27 Nov 2025
Fifty years after its publication, the Danish author’s strange but playful final book, Vilhelm’s Room, receives a spirited English translation
Sun, 14 Sept 2025
The Chinese-American author on the terror of Trump, why no party is complete without a whiteboard and how the hell of academia inspired her new book
Thu, 21 Aug 2025
Joanna Pocock’s account of two Greyhound bus journeys, 17 years apart, charts the US’s fracturing society and depleted landscape
Sun, 3 Aug 2025
The novelist on growing up in Trinidad and how JM Coetzee’s Disgrace made her a writer
Sun, 15 Jun 2025
The Northern Irish writer's witty debut novel The Benefactors is a daring deconstruction of time
Sat, 14 Jun 2025
The American writer on Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘feminist Mad Men’, how Lacan helps with boyfriend trouble, and the Annie Ernaux book everyone should read
Mon, 2 Jun 2025
Sat, 10 May 2025
The American essayist on being a tortoise at the mayfly party, her love of nature and why she needs a librarian
Fri, 9 May 2025
Choice is an illusion for an abused wife in this shocking debut from writer Florence Knapp
Sun, 27 Apr 2025