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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, 6 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
BONUS: Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding (in conversation with Amanda Dennis)
In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renov…
1 year, 6 months ago
Colombe Schneck on The Paris Trilogy (with Translator Natasha Lehrer)
Colombe Schneck’s THE PARIS TRILOGY is a book—or rather three books, first published separately in French—about growing up, about friendship, about l…
1 year, 7 months ago
Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian
A woman speaks to us from her room in a residential home, of some description. She reflects on her life, her family, her pets, on time—the past, pres…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry”
This week’s guest is Aysegul Savas, whose mesmerising third novel, The Anthropologists is about a great many things. It’s about what it means to leav…
1 year, 8 months ago
On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh)
For this special episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adam Biles was joined by novelists Lauren Groff and Neel Mukher…
1 year, 8 months ago
Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024)
Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel Creation Lake is a spy novel stacked with ideas. As our fast-thinking, gun-packing protagonist wends her way down to th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits
Our guest in the writer’s studio this week is Ferdia Lennon, whose debut novel Glorious Exploits depicts the ancient world in a way readers will neve…
1 year, 9 months ago
Roxy Dunn on As Young As This
Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, s…
1 year, 9 months ago