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An American Marriage: Tayari Jones and Cathy Rentzenbrink
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, An American Marriage (Oneworld) is a thrilling depiction of the American Dream in freefall. Barack Obama (no…
6 years, 8 months ago
Robert Chandler and David Herman on Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, suppressed by the Soviet authorities in the 1950s but smuggled out of Russia with the help of Andrey Sakharov in the…
6 years, 8 months ago
Writers on Recordings: Rachel Cusk on Katherine Anne Porter
New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature for 80 years, hosting in its famed Reading Series the greatest literary artists …
6 years, 8 months ago
Writers on Recordings: Colm Tóibín on Elizabeth Bishop
New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature for 80 years, hosting in its famed Reading Series the greatest literary artists …
6 years, 8 months ago
Promise of a Dream: Sheila Rowbotham and Lynne Segal
Sheila Rowbotham’s many books, in history, politics, feminist theory and biography, have established her firmly at the forefront of both the women’s …
6 years, 9 months ago
Guestbook: Ghost Stories: Leanne Shapton and Adam Thirlwell
In her latest work Guestbook: Ghost Stories (Particular Books) Leanne Shapton, through a series of stories and vignettes, encounters the uncanny. Are…
6 years, 9 months ago
For the Good Times: David Keenan and Bill Drummond
David Keenan’s For the Good Times (Faber), set in Belfast during The Troubles, pursues four friends battling for an identity in a neighbourhood haran…
6 years, 9 months ago
Dressed: Shahidha Bari and Marina Warner
In her first book Dressed (Jonathan Cape), Shahidha Bari explores the hidden memories, meanings and ideas which are wrapped up in our clothes; themes…
6 years, 9 months ago
Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris and Sarah Howe
Listen back to an evening of readings and discussion from three outstanding poets, Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris and Sarah Howe. ------ Mary Jean Chan'…
6 years, 10 months ago
Queer Cultures of Resistance: Niven Govinden, Amelia Abraham and Isabel Waidner
To mark the publication of Niven Govinden’s This Brutal House (Dialogue Books), we hosted a round table discussion about LGBTQI+ literature and cultu…
6 years, 10 months ago