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Eric Anderson and Sean Borodale In Conversation
Eric Anderson & Sean Borodale
‘The incendiary elements that start my poems are often something I find shocking, but hopefully not gratuitous.’
Steven Hall | Podcast
Steven Hall & Ted Hodgkinson
Steven Hall on the internet, writing from memory and Ian the Cat.
Ruth Ozeki | Podcast
Ruth Ozeki & Yuka Igarashi
‘And I never was quite sure who I was or who I was supposed to be.’
Milan Kundera | Interview
Milan Kundera & Ian McEwan
‘If you are a small nation, though, you do not make history. You are always the object of history.’ Ian McEwan interviews Milan Kundera in 1984.
Rewriting the Rules of the Game
Ian Leslie
Ian Leslie on Barack Obama's election in 2008 and forthcoming administration.
Jo Broughton | Interview
Jo Broughton & Ollie Brock
‘Jo Broughton’s parents were ‘too busy killing each other’, she says, to know where she went when she ran away from home aged seventeen.’
Evie Wyld | Podcast
Evie Wyld & Ted Hodgkinson
Evie Wyld talks to online editor Ted Hodgkinson about why living in Peckham makes it easier to write about rural Australia, how memory informs her stories and why she can’t write a novel without at least one shark in it.
Charles Simic | Interview
Charles Simic & Rachael Allen
Charles Simic is one of today's most prolific poets. He speaks with poetry editor Rachael Allen about poetic movements, simple dishes and tragicomedy.
S.J. Naudé and Ivan Vladislavić In Conversation
S.J. Naudé & Ivan Vladislavić
‘In rapidly transforming societies, writers may lose the space they’ve built their imaginative lives around.’
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Special
Santiago Roncagliolo & Nell Freudenberger
‘Santiago Roncagliolo seems utterly unconcerned with whether we like his two characters, and (as in life) that fact makes them irresistible.’
Gary Shteyngart | Interview
Gary Shteyngart & Emily Greenhouse
‘I can’t even afford to have thoughts on London, much less live or visit there.’
Amir’s Iraq
Marie-Hélène Carleton & Micah Garen
An Iraqi teacher, author and interpreter shares his perspective on a country recovering from trauma.
