Igbo and Tamil writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi's mesmerising first novel Freshwater was published to universal acclaim in 2018, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Their second book was Pet, a novel for young adults that raised difficult and pertinent questions about cultures of denial, and was described as ‘beautiful and genre-expanding’ i ... Show More
Nov 12
Ken Worpole & Melissa Benn: Brightening from the East
Ken Worpole, ‘a literary original, a social and architectural historian whose books combine the Orwellian ideal of common decency with understated erudition’ (New Statesman), has written on many subjects during his long career, from cemeteries to hospices to the novels of Alexand ... Show More
1h 4m
Nov 5
Paul B. Preciado & Nathalie Olah: Dysphoria Mundi
With Testo Junkie, Pornotopia, An Apartment in Uranus and Can the Monster Speak, Paul B. Preciado became established as one of the most exciting and challenging social thinkers of our time. His latest book Dysphoria Mundi (Fitzcarraldo), a mutant text assembled from essays, philo ... Show More
1h 12m
Jan 2022
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE | Author & Poet | Conversations
<p>In this conversation, we talked to Naomi Shihab Nye about her career in prose and poetry writing<strong>.</strong> Nye is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for her work, including the Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Book Critics Circle, ... Show More
28m 39s
Jan 2022
Debut Novelists to Look Out For in 2022 with Isy Suttie
<p>A new year = new books, and there are plenty of brilliant new stories to look out for this year. To get your 2022 reading list started, we've brought together five of this year's most exciting debut novelists. Speaking to Isy Suttie, they introduce us to themselves and their b ... Show More
47m 9s
May 2022
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE | The Turtle of Oman & Michigan | Book Club
<p>Naomi Shihab Nye talked about her books ‘The Turtle of Oman’ and ‘The Turtle of Michigan<strong>.</strong> The books are about Aref as he travels from Muscat, Oman, to Ann Arbor, Michigan.</p><p>Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father was a Palestinian ref ... Show More
57m 42s
Mar 2021
Kazuo Ishiguro and Friendship With Machines
<p>Kazuo Ishigruo’s eighth novel, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/books/review/klara-and-the-sun-kazuo-ishiguro.html" target="_blank">“Klara and the Sun,”</a> is his first since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. It’s narrated by Klara, an Artificial Frien ... Show More
1h 10m
Mar 2022
LINA MOUNZER | Writing about Lebanon | Conversations
<p>Lina Mounzer talked about her career as a writer and translator. Lina’s work has appeared in the<i> New York Times</i>, the <i>Paris Review</i>, <i>1843</i>, <i>Literary Hub</i>, and <i>Bidoun</i>, as well as in the anthologies <i>Hikayat: An Anthology of Lebanese Women’s Writ ... Show More
25m 45s