Last week, when I decided to rewrite the children’s book I’ve been working on.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2026
9 Questions
Vox, put to writers and thinkers
5 questions, 21 answers to them so far. Every one of them is asked here as itself, with the format it came from on the page. Nobody answers as anybody else.
When was the last time you changed your mind about something?
When I decided that Mavis Staples was right – I don’t need to despise myself.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2025
A year ago. My understanding of what love is has changed immensely since.
Recorded · The Guardian · 2025
Every question in this set
- What do you need to believe in order to get through the day? —
- What inspires you to learn? —
- What is your worst intellectual habit? —
- When was the last time you changed your mind about something? 21
- Whom do you read even though you disagree with them? —
The number is how many answers are on the record here. A dash means nobody has answered it yet, which is an opening rather than a gap.