We have Deborah Smith to thank for Han Kang – and we are truly grateful. Fresh from winning an Arts Foundation Award, next month sees Smith launch a publishing house that will transform a literary landscape choked with diversity issues. (Portrait of Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay by Richard Phœnix)
As Nitzer Ebb gear up to play Helsinki's Flow Festival, Douglas McCarthy talks Luke Turner through his favourite music, from listening to classical while eating offal on Canvey Island through David Bowie, Killing Joke, Brian Eno, JJ Cale, Thelonious Monk and more
The virtuoso bassist takes Rob Hakimian through his musical life story with a baker's dozen that traces his trajectory from kid messing with his parents' records to the in-demand player that he is today. Photographs by The1Point8.