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The Summer 2021 issue features interviews with Arundhati Roy and Roz Chast, the first English translation of a monologue by Vladimir Nabokov, and much more.

  After her first novel, The God of Small Things (1997), Arundhati Roy did not publish another for twenty years, when The Ministry of Utmost Happiness was released in 2017. The intervening decades were nonetheless filled with writing: essays on dams, displacement, and democracy, which appeared in newspapers and magazines such as Outlook, Frontline, and the Guardian, and were collected in volumes that quickly came to outnumber the novels. Most of these essays were compiled in 2019 in My Seditious Heart, which, with footnotes, comes to nearly a thousand pages; less than a year later sh...

The journalist on coffee, books, more books, a swim in the evening and supper with mum ‘Most broadcast news is not constructive, it’s endless noise’: Samira Ahmed. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images ‘Most broadcast news is not constructive, it’s endless noise’: Samira Ahmed. Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images Sun 25 Apr 2021 01.45 EDT Sunday morning? I make a pot of coffee when I wake at 6am, then get back into bed and spend two hours reading. I started doing it in lockdown and have never been happier: why wait to do the thing you love most in the world...