US poet laureate Ada Limón celebrates nature, family and human connection in The Hurting Kind

From Antarctica to Zanzibar – Sara Wheeler on 40 years of adventure in her new book, Glowing Still

Maestro Daniel Barenboim on his life in music — and its role in bringing cultures together

Serbian British writer Vesna Goldsworthy on reimagining Anna Karenina

Max Porter blurs the line between dream and reality in his compelling, inventive fiction

Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Shields brought a fresh perspective to the lives of women

Ukraine’s Andrey Kurkov on shock, optimism and the resilience of ordinary people

Malcolm Gladwell on his Jamaican roots, growing up in rural Ontario and why ‘being first’ is overrated

Vikram Seth on family, home and the unlikely love story of his great aunt and uncle

Sarah Bakewell on the enduring influence of humanist thought – from the Renaissance to today

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀'s politically charged fiction paints an intimate portrait of contemporary Nigerian life

Ayad Akhtar examines the soul of America through his own family's story in Homeland Elegies

Elizabeth McCracken’s fictional portrait of her own remarkable mother is warm, witty and wise

Booker winner Eleanor Catton’s new novel, Birnam Wood, is a moral thriller for our times

Yiyun Li’s new novel, The Book of Goose, is a beguiling tale of childhood imagination, hunger and memory

Zimbabwe's Petina Gappah casts new light on David Livingstone's search for the source of the Nile

Nothing is as it seems in Scottish novelist Graeme Macrae Burnet’s inventive, genre-defying fiction

World-renowned South African artist William Kentridge on his wide-ranging, politically engaged work

Kapka Kassabova on the untold stories of Bulgaria's haunted borderland

The tragic loss of a close friend became the impetus for Hua Hsu’s acclaimed memoir, Stay True