Pankaj Mishra, Rachel Kushner, Andrew O’Hagan and Rachel Cooke are all writers whose work has touched on social and cultural change around the world. Here they discuss how storytelling reflects and is shaped by the context in which it is written. Pankaj Mishra’s writing spans travelogue, fiction, memoir, history and philosophy and he is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Granta, and the Times Literary Supplement. Rachel Kushner is the author of the Folio Prize-shortlisted The Flamethrowers, which was also a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award. Named Time’s Most Popular Book Among Critics, it topped the best book lists of 2013.