The Gentlewoman # 20

The writer of great intelligence and optimism, Margaret Atwood is the face of the 20th issue. Inside, the 79-year-old nature-lover, equal rights campaigner and author of 64 books sets out a reassuring roadmap for the future, interviewed on the eve of the publication of her long-awaited novel The Testaments. Alongside Margaret is the epic American artist Kara Walker, mesmerising actor Julia Garner, everyone’s favourite TV presenter Claudia Winkleman, the founder of Extinction Rebellion Gail Bradbrook and the sensational pop star Charlotte Adigéry. Additionally, we rock out in Glasgow, sound check with Kate Tempest, slice, dice and gut in Brockley and prepare for the worst with Dr Sally Leivesley, while Raquel Zimmermann gives us 19 ravishing looks.

Further featured in this bonanza twentieth edition, a wondrous index devoted to the 669 women who have graced the magazine’s pages, together defining a decade of style and purpose in print.