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Ondjaki captures the humour and heartache of life in his hometown, Luanda, Angola
Nadine Labaki highlights the heroism of children in Beirut in her new film, Capharnaüm
Kiese Laymon bears the weight of a difficult past in his powerful memoir, Heavy
Patti Smith on the immediacy of photography - and why she prefers Polaroids
András Forgách explores his family's secret past in The Acts of My Mother
Amitava Kumar on India, the U.S. and the indelible imprint of the immigrant experience
Kathryn Harrison on how her grandparents saved her from a broken childhood in On Sunset
Michael Winterbottom on his new film The Wedding Guest and the epic journey of his career in film
Lawrence Osborne on the imporatnce of place and on re-imagining Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's iconic sleuth
In Warlight, Michael Ondaatje explores family secrets and betrayal
Danzy Senna's darkly comic take on racial identity
Jonas Hassen Khemiri crosses borders through words and imagination
Rachel Kushner examines California's prison system in her new novel, The Mars Room
A conversation with James Ivory about his long filmmaking career and his recent Oscar winner, Call Me By Your Name
'He was my best teacher.' Liv Ullmann on the legendary Ingmar Bergman
Mary Gaitskill: from bad behaviour to surprising tenderness
Kevin Young reminds us there's nothing new about fake news in his new book, Bunk
Ali Smith on her novels Autumn and Winter, and on the circular movement of time — in nature, life and art
Sebastián Lelio on the fantastic woman at the heart of his Oscar-nominated film
Xiaolu Guo traces her life's unlikely journey from East to West
My grandparents were Nazis.' Novelist Rachel Seiffert mines her family's dark past
Witi Ihimaera and Ali Cobby Eckermann on the power of Indigenous storytelling
Novelist Anuradha Roy explores beauty, violence and power in modern India
Spanish novelist Javier Marías on secrets and betrayal — in politics and fiction
Filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour on Mary Shelley, the woman behind Frankenstein