Kate Whitehead

The co-founder of the Californian band tells Kate Whitehead about riding the fame wave.

Multifaceted Chinese-American author describes his unique path to a career that has brought professional acclaim and personal fulfilment

It’s never too late to start exercising, says Andrei Iwanowitsch, who was in his 80s before becoming physically active – he feels better now than 15 years ago Andrei Iwanowitsch is a 98-year-old with a spring in his step and a twinkle in his eye. On holiday from his home in Belarus, he’s spent the…

Sacked British adviser fights lonely battle to prove psychoactive drugs may be effective in treating depression and post-traumatic stress

Robbie Stamp recalls a brutal period of his life when he lost his firm, his father and his friend, and how making the 2005 film turned everything around Out of Africa My parents met and married in Johannesburg, South Africa. My father moved out there from the UK after the second world war with his first…

Boycott of next month’s Irrawaddy Literary Festival announced by one guest over Muslim minority humanitarian crisis, while another, Lonely Planet’s Tony Wheeler, accuses its patron, Aung San Suu Kyi, of not saying enough about it