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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai: Novel number two
The Vietnamese writer creates the follow-up to her prize-winning debut novel

Nitin Sawhney
Composer Nitin Sawhney creates a contemporary war requiem

Colm TóibÃn: A life of writing
Inside the creative world of the acclaimed author of Brooklyn

Siri Hustvedt writing her next novel
The American novelist and scholar is writing her next novel ‘The Haunted Envelope’.

Glyndebourne’s Messiah
Jeff Lloyd Roberts follows a new production of one of the great Christian works of Easter

Glyndebourne’s Messiah
Handel’s Messiah is one of the great Christian works of Easter.

Afshin Naghouni: Jelly beans and nostalgia
A visual artist tackling our perceptions of the past

Afshin Naghouni: Jelly beans and nostalgia
A visual artist tackling our perceptions of the past

Hew Locke in the heart of Tate Britain
The Guyanese-British artist creates his largest work to date.

Meron Hadero: Inside the mind of a writer
Ethiopian-American writer Meron Hadero on how her debut short story collection came to be