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4 3 2 1: An Evening with Paul Auster
Paul Auster discussed his first novel in seven years, the extraordinary 4 3 2 1 (Faber) in which a single individual, born in 1947 in Newark, follows…
9 years, 1 month ago
Alice Oswald on Ted Hughes
For nearly 80 years, New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature, hosting in its famed Reading Series the greatest literary …
9 years, 1 month ago
Tessa Hadley on Eudora Welty
For nearly 80 years, New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature, hosting in its famed Reading Series the greatest literary …
9 years, 1 month ago
Hisham Matar on Jorge Luis Borges
For nearly 80 years, New York's 92nd Street Y has been a home to the voices of literature, hosting in its famed Reading Series the greatest literary …
9 years, 1 month ago
First Love: Gwendoline Riley and Katherine Angel with Joanna Biggs
Gwendoline Riley was at the bookshop to talk about her new novel, First Love, an exploration of marriage as battleground. Anne Enright described her …
9 years, 2 months ago
Money is a Feminist Issue: Ann Pettifor and Ellie Mae O'Hagan
Money makes the world go round: but what is it really? And how is it produced? Above all, who controls its production, and in whose interests? Money …
9 years, 2 months ago
The End of Eddy: Édouard Louis and Tash Aw
Édouard Louis was born into poverty in northern France, as Eddy Belleguele, in 1992. His autobiographical novel En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, newly…
9 years, 2 months ago
Grand Hotel Abyss: Stuart Jeffries and Sarah Bakewell
Grand Hotel Abyss is a majestic group biography exploring who the Frankfurt School were and why they matter today. Combining biography, philosophy an…
9 years, 2 months ago
The Dream of Enlightenment: Anthony Gottlieb and Julian Baggini
'Never has the story been told so well,' said the New York Review of Books of Anthony Gottlieb's The Dream of Reason, a history of Western philosophy…
9 years, 3 months ago
The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East
Roger Hardy worked for more than 20 years as a Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service. In his new book, The Poisoned Well: Empire and its Leg…
9 years, 3 months ago