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Acts of Resistance: Amber Massie-Blomfield on the Power of Art to Shape a Better World
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with Amber Massie-Blomfield, author of Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World. Th…
1 year, 3 months ago
Democracy at Risk: Salomé Saqué on Resisting the Far Right
In this pivotal episode, Adam Biles speaks with French journalist and author Salomé Saqué about her urgent new book, Résister. Recorded two days afte…
1 year, 4 months ago
Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 2
For the second part of this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam get help from novelist Claire-Louise Bennett and Philosophy profes…
1 year, 4 months ago
Claire-Louise Bennett returns to the Pond
Originally published by The Stinging Fly Press in Ireland on 2015, Claire-Louise Bennett’s POND found a wider audience with its UK publisher, the the…
1 year, 4 months ago
Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 1
Happy Joycension Day!
For this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam reunited for a lively discussion of Watt by Samuel Beckett, aski…
1 year, 4 months ago
Yasmin Zaher on The Coin
The publication of The Coin by Yasmin Zaher marks the arrival of a determinedly contemporary, sometimes confounding, always compelling voice in Engli…
1 year, 4 months ago
David Runciman: “The history of ideas is about letting people believe in things that they hadn't previously thought possible…”
In a world overwhelmed by complex political challenges and endless commentary, where can we turn for insight into how we got here—and where we might …
1 year, 5 months ago
Dorian Lynskey on the Stories We Tell About the End of the World…
Why are we so obsessed with the apocalypse? Is it a reaction to the state of the world—climate catastrophe, regional wars threatening global conflict…
1 year, 5 months ago
Emmanuel Carrère on V13: “A unique experience of horror, pity, proximity and presence…”
On the night of Friday, 13 November 2015, three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Stade de France during a football match between France…
1 year, 5 months ago
Denis Hirson: “They Called My Father A One-Man Revolution”
Denis Hirson’s My Thirty Minute Bar Mitzvah can be read as many different books. It can be read as a new, deeply personal, take on a pivotal episode …
1 year, 6 months ago