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On imagining what hasn’t, can’t and won’t imagine you, with Margo Jefferson
Despite being a lauded writer and critic, despite being the winner of a Pulitzer Prize even, Margo Jefferson innovates and takes risks like a writer …
4 years, 1 month ago
On Prison, Literature and Grief with Preti Taneja
On 29 November 2019, Usman Kahn attacked and killed Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt at Fishmongers Hall in London, and was later shot dead by police on…
4 years, 1 month ago
Superstar Poets and (Step)Fatherhood in Chile, with Alejandro Zambra
Superstar Poets and (Step)Fatherhood in Chile, with Alejandro Zambra
What is a Chilean Poet? According to Pru, one of the characters in Alejandro Zamb…
4 years, 1 month ago
Rachel Cusk & Siemon Scamell-Katz on Writing, Painting and the Vanishing Sublime
In this special double episode we welcome dear friends of the bookshop Rachel Cusk and Siemon Scamell-Katz. First up is a conversation between Rachel…
4 years, 2 months ago
📘🎸Special Episode: Music for Ulysses with Alex Freiman🎸📘
In this special episode, we’re joined by Parisian jazz musician Alex Freiman, to discuss the process of composing the theme music for Friends of Shak…
4 years, 2 months ago
George Saunders on Reading Better, Writing Better, and Living Better
To mark the paperback release of George Saunders’s extraordinary reading and writing guide A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, we are delighted to release …
4 years, 2 months ago
Memory, Guilt and the Hunt for a Nazi Fugitive with Philippe Sands
One way Philippe Sands has described his extraordinary new book The Ratline is as “a sort of Nazi love story”. While there is certainly a love-story …
4 years, 2 months ago
Global Disorder and the road to war in Ukraine, with Helen Thompson
As its title suggests, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century is a book about the many and varied crises our world is facing. However by tracing th…
4 years, 2 months ago
On the Pleasures (and Pains) of Rereading, with Rob Doyle
We speak with novelist Rob Doyle about his new book Autobibliography in which he recounts a year spent rereading 52 books. Detailing the memories the…
4 years, 3 months ago
Dostoyevsky, the Parisian murderer, and the creation of a masterpiece, with Kevin Birmingham
In The Sinner and the Saint, Kevin Birmingham deftly unpicks the personal, societal, historical and philosophical forces that led Fyodor Dostoyeksky—…
4 years, 3 months ago