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With his own novel Upstate landing on critics’ desks, James Wood talks about writing, family and his ‘buoyant’ disposition

A foul-mouthed Brit with ‘a fifth-grade understanding of American politics’, John Oliver talks about the secret to satire

Her parents were sceptical about her career choice, but decades after ‘Alien’, Sigourney Weaver is still in the spotlight

Sooner or later, most online discussions could invoke the US president and this emblematic gesture of our times magnifies our anxieties

Once the bete noire of the right, now Susan Sarandon finds herself even more hated by the left

In her most successful decade, the actress talks family, ‘surrealist’ politics and the perils of marrying James Bond

Actress talks about having Meryl Streep as a mentor and her hits and misses in the industry

The author discovers he doesn’t need a tough existence to be authentic and there is enough colour even in his privileged New York upbringing

With ‘Bright Lights, Big City’, the novelist established himself as the chronicler of New York’s hedonistic 1980s elite

The bestselling American author talks about her leap to fame and writing the screenplay of the film based on her third novel

The author talks about why he decided to write a dystopian novel set in America

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Women’s prize-winning Nigerian author, talks about sexism, hairstyles and living in America