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Proust Questionnaire: Dolly Alderton!
When Dolly Alderton stopped by for a signing we took the chance to get her to answer our Café’s Proust Questionnaire. Dolly is a self-confessed over-…
3 years ago
Leïla Slimani on Inheritance, Hippies and the Literature of Disappointment
In Watch Us Dance—Leïla Slimani’s effervescent new novel—we rejoin the Belhaj family in 1968 a dozen years into the life on an independent Morocco. A…
3 years ago
BONUS: Martin Amis in conversation with Will Self (2010)
After the recent passing of Martin Amis, we dug out this sizzling conversation between him and Will Self at our festival in 2010. All of Amis’s brill…
3 years ago
On Anti-Memoir, the Weird, and New Kinds of Disaster, with M. John Harrison
Wish I Was Here—the new book by today’s guest M. John Harrison—is a work which resists description. Monique Roffey goes for “a deep dive into the bac…
3 years ago
On Unclassifiable Books and Uncategorisable Lives, with Xiaolu Guo
Like all of Xiaolu Guo’s work RADICAL is difficult to describe because it’s difficult to categorise. It might be called a memoir, but it’s form makes…
3 years, 1 month ago
How Westminster Works . . . and Why it Doesn’t, with Ian Dunt
In How Westminster Works and Why it Doesn’t Ian Dunt blows the cobwebs out of the arcane nooks and crannies of the British political system, demystif…
3 years, 1 month ago
✖️On Art, Alternative Histories, and the Arbitrariness of Life with Catherine Lacey✖️
Biography of X is one of the most intriguing, compelling and vertigo-inducing reads of recent years. Structured and referenced like a biography—writt…
3 years, 2 months ago
📚How to Resist Amazon and Why, with Danny Caine📚
This episode, Adam speaks to Danny Caine, owner of Raven Bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas, and author of How to Resist Amazon and Why? an excoriating, e…
3 years, 2 months ago
On Old Wounds, Finding Peace, and Returning Home, with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is about the lives lived by those in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Those who hid fro…
3 years, 3 months ago
🗺️On Sarajevo, Multiple Worlds and History at the Fringes, with Aleksandar Hemon🗺️
Aleksandar Hemon’s new novel, The World and All That it Holds starts with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, and then takes us…
3 years, 3 months ago