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Veep creator Armando Iannucci finds the comic in the absurd, from The Death of Stalin to David Copperfield
Adrian Tomine on The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist — and finding solace in storytelling
Margot Livesey on The Boy in the Field and the presence of ghosts in her fiction — and in her life
Original Minds: 30 Years of Writers & Co Special, with Jane Goodall, Oliver Sacks, Amartya Sen, Jane Jacobs and Desmond Tutu
Wayétu Moore tells the story of Liberia through her family's escape from its devastating civil war
David Foenkinos on literary fame, lost artistic genius, and John Lennon
Tsitsi Dangarembga looks at the dreams and disappointments of post-colonial Zimbabwe
30 years of Writers & Company: highlights from our very first season
Brit Bennett on race, identity and the re-invention of self in The Vanishing Half
Dalia Sofer draws on her family's escape from revolutionary Iran in her compelling novels
Ayad Akhtar examines the soul of America through his own family's story in Homeland Elegies
A conversation with former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey
Fatima Bhutto on her powerful and tragic political family and the lure of extremism for the young
Mira Nair's adaptation of A Suitable Boy looks at family and political tensions in post-partition India
From The Book of Salt to The Sweetest Fruits, Monique Truong's fiction explores the hunger of the soul
Filmmaker John Boorman on Point Blank, Deliverance and his new memoir, Conclusions
American poet Jericho Brown speaks with power and urgency about racism and violence
Martha Ackmann on how Emily Dickinson was fuelled by the light of her brilliant interior world
Zimbabwe's Petina Gappah casts new light on David Livingstone's search for the source of the Nile
Translator and writer Jennifer Croft on her extraordinary childhood and the places it's led her
Masha Gessen on the nature of power and morality — from Soviet Russia to Trump's America
Maaza Mengiste on the untold story of Ethiopia's women warriors during Italian occupation
Star choreographer Alexei Ratmansky makes breathtaking ballet out of classic literature
Comic book artist Chris Ware brings complex stories to life in pictures
From Tripoli to Tuscany—Libyan writer Hisham Matar finds new connections between art and life