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The Stone-Thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt
Max Thomas Mehr & Regine Sylvester
‘It has nothing to do with the question of the foreigners. No one in Eisenhuttenstadt wants the foreigners here.’
Letters from One Young Poet to Another
Caleb Klaces & Soledad Marambio
‘I do like to think of my poems as messages.’
Zadie Smith | Interview
Zadie Smith & Ted Hodgkinson
Zadie Smith on writing tighter sentences, the ‘essential hubris’ of criticism and why novelists prefer writing in their pyjamas.
Justin Torres | Interview
Justin Torres & Jennifer de Leon
‘I wanted to write a book about a family so complicated, so in love, and so flawed, that folks would resist easy categories.’
‘Useless Chaos is What Fiction is About’
Mavis Gallant & Jhumpa Lahiri
‘Useless chaos is what fiction is about.’
Letters From Two Exit Strategists
Jacob Newberry & Vanessa Manko
‘I feel like I’ll spend a great many years unravelling whatever is being stored inside of me just now.’
Interviews of the Boys from the War
Daniel Kon
‘But you had to be on the islands to know what it was really all about.’
Ben Markovits | Podcast
Benjamin Markovits & Yuka Igarashi
Ben Markovits in conversation with Yuka Igarashi on minor-league baseball and his experiences as a writer.
Moscow Women
Carola Hansson & Karin Lidén
‘She’s young, then suddenly she’s old, and she’s buried without knowing why she ever lived.’
The Game of Evenings
Adolf Hoffmeister & James Joyce
For Bloomsday, James Joyce and Adolf Hoffmeister argue about a Czech translation of Finnegans Wake in a rare and intimate interview from 1930.
International Prize for Arabic Fiction | Podcast
Saud Alsanousi & Ellah Alfrey
On Tuesday 23 April, in Abu Dhabi, Saud Alsanousi was announced winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
