Santilla Chingaipe, Nevo Zisin and Paul Beatty reflect on the problems of identity and self-definition.

Don Watson, Judith Brett, Jack Latimore and Stuart Macintryre reflect on the problem of Australian identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Bob Brown and others on good faith, good intentions and optimism in the face of misery.

Masha Gessen, Tony Birch and Black Lives Matter activists, Patrice Cullors and Rodney Diverlus, on dissent, resistance and building a movement.

Kenneth Roth, Erik Jensen and Cheryl Strayed on fear, anxiety and the end of the world.

Vivian Gornick, Robert Dessaix and Barry Jones on ageing, accumulating and gaining insight.

Andy Field, Stephen Heintz and Geraldine Doogue talk money, debt, art and philanthropy.

Helen Razer, Jamila Rizvi and Julian Burnside ask the urgent and provocative questions facing contemporary Australia.

Kate Tempest, Carrie Brownstein, Paul Kelly and others reflect on music, language and musical inspiration.

The cult of celebrity is one of the defining features of contemporary culture but what drives our curiosity about the lives of others?