Podcast Episodes

Akshi Singh & Anouchka Grose: In Defence of Leisure

In her new book In Defence of Leisure (Cape), Akshi Singh presents Marion Milner as a writer for our times. In asking the simple question: how do I w…

3 months, 1 week ago

Geoff Dyer & Gareth Evans: Homework

Geoff Dyer has written books on every subject under the sun; now, at last, he turns his hand to memoir. Homework is his account of his childhood and …

3 months, 1 week ago

Francesca Wade & Lara Pawson: On Gertrude Stein

Francesca Wade’s biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, follows on from her acclaimed Square Haunting (Faber, 2020) to present a portrait of one of…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Vittles Issue 1 Launch: Robin Craig, Amy Key & Waithera Sebatindira

Since its founding, the online food and culture publication Vittles has sought to disrupt mainstream ideas of what food writing looks like. To mark i…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Zarina Muhammad & Lola Olufemi on bell hooks’s Art on My Mind

To celebrate the Penguin Classics reissue of bell hooks’s Art on My Mind, Zarina Muhammad & Lola Olufemi discuss her work.

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4 months ago

Danny Dorling & Arianne Shahvisi: The Next Crisis

If the first quarter of the 21st Century has been rich in one thing, it is anxiety. Pandemics, asteroids, climate change, global instability, the cos…

4 months, 1 week ago

Lamorna Ash & James Butler: Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever

In Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever (Bloomsbury) Lamorna Ash, author of the coming-of-age memoir cum anthropological study of the Cornish fishing indu…

4 months, 1 week ago

Jamieson Webster & Katherine Angel: On Breathing

In On Breathing (Peninsula Press) Jamieson Webster, a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and part-time faculty member at The New School fo…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Laleh Khalili & David Wearing: Extractive Capitalism

Laleh Khalili, Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, looks behind the glossy surface promises of frictionless trade and limitless gr…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Sheila Fitzpatrick & Owen Hatherley: The Death of Stalin

In the first of a new series from Old Street in which historian focus on a single moment of history, pre-eminent English-language expert on the Sovie…

4 months, 2 weeks ago