Lisa O'Kelly

The American novelist on female power, watching The Wife go from page to screen – and the politics of book design

The Libyan prize-winning author on how art helped him cope with his father’s disappearance – and the joys of Proust

The Mancunian author on becoming a victim of a race-hate crime, walking the Pennine Way – and the memoir that followed

In their new book, the novelist and his photographer son-in-law document the sites of mass shootings in the US and argue for urgent change in the relationship between Americans and guns

The US writer and psychotherapist on helping her husband to die and finding the humour in writing about it – and why she’s now spending more time with waves and sunsets

The author on being banned in Virginia, communicating with dead writers and her new short story collection, the first since the death of her partner

The revered actor, passionate activist and I Ching devotee fields queries on self-doubt, levelling up the arts, and turning loss into beauty

The American author and critic on being in a band with Jim Jarmusch, the macho pre-Aids world of the gay scene in New York, and on coming out to her wife and son

The Indian-born photographer Sujata Setia uses traditional paper-cutting as a metaphor in her portraits of survivors

The author and academic on mistaking feelings for facts, the importance of education and why Kemi Badenoch will do nothing to help ethnic minorities