Lionel Shriver on social manias, epiphanies, being ornery and wishing her own IQ was higher.

An interview with the bestselling author Lionel Shriver on the publication of her new novel, MANIA.

Lionel Shriver is the bestselling author of fifteen novels, including the Orange Prize–winner We Need to Talk About Kevin, and a prolific journalist currently with a fortnightly column in Britain’s T…