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👭🏼Naomi Klein on Doppelgangers, Conspiracy Theories, and the Shadowlands we all inhabit…👭🏼
This week, Adam is joined by Naomi Klein, whose new book, Doppelganger is somehow both the most personal and the most all-encompassing of her works t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Claire-Louise Bennett on Nightflowers, her immersive installation at Museum of Literature Ireland
This week Adam is joined by Claire-Louise Bennett for a wide-ranging conversation, orbiting around Nightflowers, her immersive installation at Museum…
2 years, 5 months ago
🥘On Eating through the Endtimes, with C Pam Zhang🥘
Set in a near future in which a mysterious smog has enveloped the world, devastating crops and biodiversity, the narrator of Land of Milk and Honeyta…
2 years, 5 months ago
🐕On Life, Art and the Line Between the Two, with Jo Ann Beard🐕
Jo Ann Beard’s essays are surprising, insightful, thoughtful, and contains something new in each and every sentence. Recently published in the UK as …
2 years, 6 months ago
👁️Sandra Newman on Julia, her re-imagining of George Orwell’s 1984 👁️
If you thought life on Airstrip one was tough for Winston Smith, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Because in JULIA, Sandra Newman’s reimagining of Orwell’…
2 years, 6 months ago
⛵Bidding adieu to a literary journal, with John Freeman (Feat. readings from Sandra Cisneros, Aleksandar Hemon, Rebecca Makkai, and Mieko Kawakami read by translator Hitomi Yoshio)⛵
This episode Adam is joined by John Freeman to bid farewell to his game-changing literary journal Freeman’s. They discuss the pleasures and challenge…
2 years, 7 months ago
🛏️On Not Sleeping, with Marie Darrieussecq🛏️
This week, Adam was joined in the writer’s studio by Marie Darrieussecq, whose latest book Sleepless (translated by Penny Hueston and published by Fi…
2 years, 7 months ago
🐖On Populism, Post-Truth, and Piggybacking George Orwell. Adam Biles in conversation with Rob Doyle.🐖
This week our host switches chairs to discuss his new novel, Beasts of England, a state-of-the-farmyard novel about back-stabbers, truth-twisters and…
2 years, 8 months ago
💎Sunday Poetry: Emilie Moorhouse reads from Emerald Wounds, her new translation of the poems of Joyce Mansour💎
Buy Emerald Wounds: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/emerald-wounds
Joyce Mansour was a Syrian Jewish exile from Egypt whose fierce, macabr…
2 years, 8 months ago
🧠On Making Sense of a Murderer, with Mark O’Connell🧠
Mark O’Connell’s new book A Thread of Violence is the writer’s attempt to understand Malcolm MacArthur, the figure at the centre of one of Ireland’s …
2 years, 8 months ago