Marcus du Sautoy: “A mathematician is a storyteller”
The Oxford professor on the tales hidden in numbers.
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Gabriel Sherman: “Donald Trump is older and less sane and angrier”
The screenwriter of the scathing biopic The Apprentice on provoking the wrath of the former president.
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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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Lynn Barber’s conversation pieces
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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