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Theresa Lola: Poetry can transport you to places you’ve never been in ten lines. It’s emotion compressed

The Nigerian British award winning poet on poetry as a way to reclaim language, connect with heritage, and ask questions that don’t need neat answers.

Elif Shafak: We live in an age of too much information, very little knowledge, and even less wisdom

Elif Shafak is one of the most widely read novelists in the world today – and one of the most fiercely articulate on the role of...

Marcus Brigstocke: It started to bother me that testosterone, a hormone in my body, has become shorthand for something bad

Marcus Brigstocke has been one of the most distinctive voices in British comedy for nearly thirty years. Known for combining sharp...

Axel is seen here in black and white looking into the camera. Behind him is one of his best loved creations, The Gruffalo along with the mouse.

Axel Scheffler: Picture books should leave children with some sense of hope. Otherwise, what are we doing?

The Gruffalo illustrator and best-selling author on drawing animals, protecting childhood, and staying politically engaged through art.

Miranda Cowley Heller is looking straight into the camera in front of a styalised backdrop of a tree stretching out in front of New York City's skyline. There's a hummingbird and skylark in the image too, reflecting what she mentions in the article.

Miranda Cowley Heller: The urge for control is stronger than ever. We have this terrible need to own everything

The novelist, poet, and former HBO executive on on childhood freedom, ecological unease, digital distractions, and the power of trees to put us in our place.

image of Ed Vere, backdrop shows a zoom in of a page from his book The Artist. You can see dinosaurs and the colours are mostly green, red, blue, pink, and orange. Ed is in black and white looking straight to camera.

Ed Vere: Being compassionate, kind, gentle, empathetic and creative isn’t a weakness, it’s part of being a fully rounded human being

The British author-illustrator on teaching children to notice things, why boredom is underrated, and how the fences we build – on farms, in classrooms, around wildlife – do more harm than good.

Fiona Banner AKA The Vanity Press: AI is disembodying language – but it is still of us

The British artist on conflict, control, the false clarity of the picturesque – and why all art is a form of activism.

Phoebe Smith: Nature has saved my life – more than once

The adventurer, author and outdoor advocate on growing up feeling shut out of wild places, how she found her way back to them, and why she’s made it her mission to make the outdoors feel possible – and powerful – for everyone.

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: What does “better” really mean – and for whom? Who defines it?

British artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on why hope, imagination, and curiosity are more essential than ever.