As a Russian immigrant to the US, the author grew up looking up to Gordon Gekko and Donald Trump – now, he hopes his satire about a hedge-fund manager stops people from becoming bankers

The wild child author of Baise-Moi and former sex worker has completed a trilogy, Vernon Subutex, which has secured her renown as a ‘rock’n’roll Zola’

Between 2005 and 2009, more than 130 Mennonite women were drugged and raped by men in the community. In new novel Women Talking, the ex-Mennonite tells their story

She hadn’t read a crime novel before writing her debut at 45. Now, the author of Snap talks risk-taking, genre snobbery and not needing to know whodunnit

The books interview: As the stage adaptation of his Cicero trilogy transfers to the West End, Robert Harris explains why the Roman politician’s story speaks to our age of populism

The books interview: The Circle author talks about Facebook, why immigrants are not the enemy and his first novel for children

After writing novels on artificial intelligence, neuroscience and genetics, Powers’ has turned to trees. While on a hike through the Great Smoky Mountains, he talks about environmentalism and not having children

The books interview: After 12 novels and two film adaptations, is Meg Wolitzer about to become a household name? She talks the long game – and her timely new bestseller

The books interview: Her deeply personal first novel divided critics, her new one explores the choice not to have children. Sheila Heti talks about self-belief and the joy of failure

The books interview: Diana Evans’s new novel is a soulful portrait of family life as Obama came to power. She talks motherhood, her chair-buying habit and the ‘particular solitude’ of being a lone twin

As a reviewer, James Wood earned a fearsome reputation. With his own novel Upstate landing on critics’ desks, he talks about writing, family and his ‘buoyant’ disposition

The books interview: The critic and author of White Girls on the ‘endlessly fascinating and tiresome race subject’ and taking Rachel Weisz as his date to pick up his Pulitzer prize

Her murderous nanny thriller gripped France, winning its top literary prize and the attention of President Macron. With Lullaby now out in English, the author shares her thoughts on motherhood, #MeToo and being a Muslim in France

The TV adaptation of her dystopian classic The Handmaid’s Tale captured the political moment. Ahead of a new series, Atwood talks bestsellers, bonnets and the backlash against her views on #MeToo

The winner of the Costa children’s award on academia, adventure and her wild childhood in Zimbabwe

The novelist and screenwriter on Beckett, Nabokov and failing to finish a single one of the novels of Jane Austen

The author and illustrator on their long partnership and what Brexit would have meant for The Gruffalo