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Caroline Bird and Helen Mort
Helen Mort’s latest collection, The Illustrated Woman, has just been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the latest accolade in what has been an incre…
3 years, 6 months ago
Small Fires: Rebecca May Johnson and Jonathan Nunn
Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to intellectual fulfilment leads directly out of the kitchen. In Small Fires (…
3 years, 6 months ago
Signe Gjessing, Ray Monk and Max Richter on the ‘Tractatus’
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, published in English for the first time a century ago thanks to the efforts of his tutor at Cambridge …
3 years, 7 months ago
On Ukraine: with Andrey Kurkov, Oksana Zabuzhko, Robert Chandler, James Meek, Peter Pomerantsev, Ilya Kaminsky, and Lyuba Yakimchuk
Andrey Kurkov is the celebrated Ukrainian author of Death and the Penguin and 18 other novels. His letters from Ukraine about his family’s flight fro…
3 years, 7 months ago
Juliet Jacques with Owen Jones: Front Lines
In her journalism Juliet Jacques writes about art, literature, culture and politics from a distinctive trans perspective. Front Lines (Cipher Press) …
3 years, 7 months ago
Victoria Adukwei Bulley & André Naffis-Sahely: Quiet/High Desert
Two exciting young poets were at the shop to read from and talk about their work. Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s debut poetry collection Quiet (Faber) cir…
3 years, 7 months ago
Geoff Dyer & Mark Ford: The Last Days of Roger Federer
As he enters late middle age, Geoff Dyer turns, in The Last Days of Roger Federer, to the question of late – or, indeed, last – style. Lisa Appignane…
3 years, 7 months ago
Orwell Prize Shortlist Readings: Yara Rodrigues Fowler & Isabel Waidner
Since 2019, the Orwell Prize has celebrated the best in contemporary political fiction. Yara Rodrigues Fowler and Isabel Waidner, both on the prize’s…
3 years, 8 months ago
Édouard Louis & Tash Aw: A Woman's Battles and Transformations
‘Everything started with a photo. To see her free, hurtling fulsomely towards the future, made me think back to the life she shared with my father. S…
3 years, 8 months ago
Seán Hewitt & Andrew McMillan: All Down Darkness Wide
Seán Hewitt’s debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire (Cape), won the Laurel Prize in 2020; Max Porter praised it for its reverence to the natura…
3 years, 8 months ago