Podcasts & Videos

James is joined by political theorist Alan Finlayson to try to understand the rise of Reform UK and the ways in which different styles of online rhetoric, on both the left and right, are shaping our political...

The Belgrano affair reaches its climax as the stories of Narendra Sethia and Clive Ponting connect. The two whistleblowers appear in court and the diary makes its final journey.

J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter were friends and co-conspirators in their witness to the postwar world and the liberation movements of the 1960s. Both were scathing in their antipathy towards the polite...

Parkinson’s disease turns off certain genes in the cells of the brain. What does it mean for a writer to confront scriptural disintegration and can boxing help rewire the spluttering brain? 

Albert Camus’s short life began in Algiers in 1913 and ended in a car crash near Paris in 1960. After being rejected from the École Normale because of a failed medical assessment, Camus became a journalist...

Wrong Norma is Anne Carson’s first book of original material in eight years, a collection of writings, as she puts it, ‘about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guantanamo, Flaubert, snow, poverty,...