Podcasts

Gill Partington and Thomas Jones explore Kenneth Goldsmith’s online avant-garde archive UbuWeb, listen to some of the things you can find on it, and consider what might not be found there.

Mouin Rabbani and Nathan Thrall talk to Adam Shatz about Israel’s vaccination programme, the system of apartheid that now effectively exists between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea, the...

Terry Castle talks to Thomas Jones about Patricia Highsmith.

Seventy days into the first 100 days we take the temperature of the Biden presidency and ask how he’s doing, and how he’s doing so much. What made sleepy Joe such an active president? Is it...

David Runciman and Helen Thompson talk to Chris Bickerton about how technocracy and populism have come together to create a new form of democratic politics.  From New Labour to Macron's En Marche,...

David talks to Helen Thompson and Adam Tooze about the choices facing the world in addressing climate change. Can we transition away from fossil fuels while maintaining our current ways of living?

Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of Louis MacNeice, the Irish poet of psychic divisions and authoritative fretfulness.

In the latest episode of Close Readings, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, the great poetic interrogator of the American family home as a site of trauma for daughters...

In the latest episode in their series of Close Readings, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Robert Frost, the great American poet of fences and dark woods.

André Aciman talks to Brian Dillon about his latest book, Homo Irrealis, a collection of essays.

Owen Hatherley talks to Ash Sarkar about his latest book Red Metropolis, in which he looks at the red underbelly of London, Capital of world capitalism.

Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga discusses her Booker-shortlisted novel, This Mournable Body, with writer Sara Collins.