Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKen 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 er…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
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 …
6 months ago
Xiaolu Guo & Philip Hoare: Call Me Ishmaelle
Gender, race and identity collide on the open seas in Xiaolu Guo’s Call Me Ishmaelle (Chatto), a powerful, feminist reimagining of Herman Melville’s …
6 months, 1 week ago
Didier Eribon & Mendez: The Life, Old Age & Death of a Working-Class Woman
In The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman (Allen Lane), sociologist Didier Eribon continues the historical, political and personal ref…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Jennifer Hodgson & Lara Pawson on Samuel Beckett
Seventy years after the publication of Samuel Beckett’s first novel in English, Faber have reissued Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable with ritzy …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Sophie Lewis & Lola Olufemi: Enemy Feminisms
In Enemy Feminisms (Haymarket Books), described by Judith Butler as ‘honest, brutal, historically comprehensive, and brilliant’, Sophie Lewis provide…
7 months ago
Jacqueline Rose & Yasmin El-Rifae: Women in Dark Times
Women in Dark Times (Fitzcarraldo) begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomo…
7 months, 1 week ago
T.J. Clark & Caroline Arscott: Those Passions - On Art & Politics
Art historian T.J. Clark began his academic career with two groundbreaking works on the art of mid-nineteenth century France, expounding materialist …
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Richard Scott, Emily Berry & Jane Yeh: That Broke Into Shining Crystals
‘With his electric Soho, Richard Scott has arrived like a lightning bolt in our midst’ said T.S. Eliot Prize judge Sinéad Morrissey on the publicatio…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Ariana Reines & Alice Blackhurst: Wave of Blood
Poet and playwright Ariana Reines will be making a rare UK appearance to read from her new collection with Divided Books, Wave of Blood, a lyric essa…
8 months ago