Voices
Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo talks about reading books against the internet's distractions, as well as which new writers to look out for.
We asked playwright Jo Clifford to tell us about her creative process and how her experience of transgender issues has influenced her writing.
We asked Maung Day, Burmese poet and writer in residence at Edge Hill University in the UK, about poetry in Burma today, and the influences on his own writing.
Professor Michael Dobson argues that Shakespeare was a champion of free movement, and averse to insular nationalism.
Award-winning young Russian writer Alisa Ganieva published her first long story under a secret male pen name. She told us why.
Bisi Alimi, a Nigerian activist who received death threats after he came out tells us about his experience growing up in his home country.
At London Fashion Week 2016, we spoke to four rising stars in the British Council's International Fashion Showcase about the future of international high fashion.
Filmmaker Sara Ishaq relates how a four-day art workshop helped give a degree of solace to Yemeni children made homeless by war.
Sir Andrew Motion, former British Poet Laureate, talks to journalist Georgina Godwin about his native UK as a 'country of Shakespeare', and explains how the Bard has influenced his work.
Which writers are making waves on Nigeria's literary scene at the moment? Publisher and academic Emma Shercliff, who specialises in African literature, gives us her top five recommendations.