‘I want to be other people’s cautionary tale’: how do you financially prepare for a parent’s death?
James Ellroy: ‘It’s satanic to me, the dependency people have on computers’
May 2026
‘Writing is exactly like love – you need to do it in the dark’: novelist Leila Slimani on starting a new chapter in her life
‘I want to bury it under a roundabout!’ Kim Noble on his unusual approach to promoting his graphic novel
‘My parents didn’t talk about the past’: how director Caroline Huppert recovered her family’s wartime secrets
‘I refuse to be a second-class citizen in my own land’: Taiwanese International Booker winner Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
Money whisperers
‘Take a deep breath and pick up the phone’: a former union organizer on how to negotiate your debts down
Rowing through the fog: how to increase your tolerance for uncertainty
‘I’m so grateful I got to live these days’: A Ghost in the Throat author Doireann Ní Ghríofa on recovering from depression
Stella prize 2026: Lee Lai becomes first non-binary person and first graphic novelist to win with Cannon
‘I don’t know what could top that’: debut author Jem Calder on being discovered by Sally Rooney
The ideas interview
‘Heat, floods and droughts make men more violent to women’: Natasha Walter on eco-feminism in a world on fire
Harriet Clark spent a lifetime visiting her mother, an ex-Weather Underground member, in prison: ‘The US has always used family separation to destabilize’
‘I wanted it to feel both Shakespearean and like Jay-Z’: debut author Sufiyaan Salam on masculinity, rap and meeting Stormzy
‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?
Walk with ...
Annabel Crabb: ‘I worried that people might think I’m an idiot’
April 2026
‘This is so taboo’: Kimberley Nixon on the hell of perinatal OCD – and how she survived it
Walk with ...
Lisa Wilkinson: ‘Evelyn was my safe place. She was my refuge’
After collapse and controversy, Adelaide writers’ week has a new director: ‘I don’t envy anyone in this position’
The big interview
‘Every time I write, I doubt myself’: Michael Rosen at 80 on deep grief, self-belief and chocolate cake
