An interview with Margaret Atwood
Her prophetic, powerful fiction, from The Handmaid’s Tale to her new book The Year of the Flood, makes her a voice to be reckoned with —and she says we need to act now: our time to save the planet is running out
I turned to Neil and said: ‘Hey, look. We missed the whole thing!’
Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, tells Erica Wagner about the shocking aftermath of his career as an astronaut and why man must land on Mars
How US was nearly pipped to first moon rock samples
Sir Bernard Lovell tells Erica Wagner how he listened from Jodrell Bank to the drama, with the original audio from 1969
An extraordinary trip up the coast of Baffin Island
Travelling with Adventure Canada as far as Resolute…
An interview with Benjamin Zephaniah
One of Britain’s greatest poets scorns the role of Laureate
An interview with Azar Nafisi
The Iranian academic and author tells why, in her new memoir, she felt compelled to unravel her extraordinary family’s secrets
The art of storytelling comes to town
As the nights draw in, the art of storytelling comes into its own, and there are plenty of places to hear a good tale
Central Park
… New York’s wild heart
An interview with Sir Bernard Lovell
Aged 94, Sir Bernard Lovell has one final fight – to save the pioneering radio telescope that was named after him but now faces closure in budget cuts
Seizure — the soundtrack
What music do novelists hear when they write? In Erica Wagner’s case, timeless tales of love, bewitchment and betrayal