When Han Kang published her International Booker-winning The Vegetarian (2015), translated by Deborah Smith, about a South Korean housewife who gives up meat and wants to become a tree, the novel slotted... Read more »
Renowned music producer Joe Boyd was the first production manager to plug Bob Dylan into an electric guitar, at the Newport folk festival in 1965. He remembers Pete Seeger walking away in... Read more »
It was the end of the 1990s, and I was in my 20s working as a legal academic at Kingâs College London, but I wasnât in love with the law. I needed a change.... Read more »