Zadie Smith on her new novel Swing Time – an extraordinary conversation with Sarah Kanowski. Also, Australian Indian writer Roanna Gonsalves puts women’s bodies at the centre of her sharp and funny stories of migration, love and creativity in The Permanent Resident; Man Booker shortlisted writer Ottessa Moshfegh talks about writing; while Chinese law professor and crime writer He Jiahong explains how fiction can confront both corruption and the Cultural Revolution as a ‘black hole’ at his country’s heart.