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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
Adam Foulds on celebrity, solitude and the madness of desire in his novel Dream Sequence
Sarah Broom on family bonds and the meaning of home in her award-winning memoir, The Yellow House
Susan Choi's Trust Exercise is an intense coming-of-age story — with a surprising twist
How Laura Cumming unearthed the truth about her mother's kidnapping, 90 years later
The haunted landscapes of Téa Obreht — from the Balkans to the American West
Martin Amis and Ian Thomson on the legacy of Primo Levi
Brazilian novelist Julián Fuks on exile, identity and dictatorship
Deborah Levy fuses the personal and political in her mind-bending new novel, The Man Who Saw Everything
Zadie Smith on what keeps her urgently engaged with the world around her
Master storyteller Rodrigo Rey Rosa on Guatemala, Morocco and his mentor, Paul Bowles
Yiyun Li navigates the loss of a child in her heartbreaking new novel, Where Reasons End
Federico Veiroj mixes deadpan comedy with existential drama in his prize-winning movies
Dorian Lynskey hy George Orwell's 1984 still matters, 70 years since publication
Aleksandar Hemon on how his parents fled the Siege of Sarajevo and started a new life in Canada
Award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus on hearing, seeing and grieving through verse
From The Shipping News to Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx on the importance of place in her fiction
Imani Perry on the remarkable life and legacy of Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun
How the true story of the 'American Taliban' led to John Wray's new novel, Godsend
William Atkins on the beauty, myths and harsh realities of desert life
Aatish Taseer on religion, caste and power in modern India
Nora Krug asks tough questions about her German family's wartime past
Vesna Goldsworthy on re-imagining The Great Gatsby and Anna Karenina
Esther Kinsky on the ebb and flow of memory in River