Lynn Barber claims that the most frightening thing anyone ever said to her was a remark by a doctor about to operate on her back, who promised they'd have her walking again in a fortnight – "or if we ...

Having tasted what it is like to be famous, Lynn Barber confesses she now has “more sympathy” with her interviewees Credit: Photo: Max Nash What a piece of work is Lynn Barber. On the one hand there ...

Lynn Barber’s A Curious Career is a curious concoction, a mixture of retold stories and reprinted interviews from a writer who has always been better at writing about other people rather than herself.

Lynn Barber's A Curious Career is a curious concoction, a mixture of retold stories and reprinted interviews from a writer who has always been better at writing about other people rather than herself.

An Education captured all of our imaginations five years ago. Already a Grand Dame of journalism, Lynn Barber herself became a figure we were all interested in. This, an agonisingly slight collection ...

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Lynn Barber believes that she owes her career as a newspaper interviewer, at least in part, to her childhood, which was at once perfectly ordinary and strikingly odd. She grew up an only child in a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...