Literary

'My phone became a porthole into possible types of motherhood': lockdown parenting, the internet and me

Hernan Diaz on his favourite American classics

'I wanted to write about Roman life from below': James Hynes on his historical novel, Sparrow

'Through the artifice of putting words into those rhythms and into that metre, you create a different kind of truth': Kae Tempest on their new collection

Young Mungo: the story of the cover

'Believe it or not, the pandemic was entirely incidental to the plot.' Emily St. John Mandel on Station Eleven

A guide to Emily St. John Mandel's books in order

Quiz: Fiendishly difficult literary quiz

'It is solidarity. It is action. It is care': why we need more honest portrayals of motherhood

Our favourite Irish poets

The best books about time travel to read right now

Be scared and do it anyway, from the woman who ended Page 3