21 August 2019 · 52mins
Katherine Angel’s Daddy Issues engages with what Lauren Elkin has called ‘that forgotten figure in feminism’s critique of patriarchy: the father’, examining the place of fathers in contemporary culture.
Katherine Angel’s Daddy Issues engages with what Lauren Elkin has called ‘that forgotten figure in feminism’s critique of patriarchy: the father’, examining the place of fathers in contemporary culture.
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, An American Marriage is a thrilling depiction of the American Dream in freefall.
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, suppressed by the Soviet authorities in the 1950s but smuggled out of Russia with the help of Andrey Sakharov in the early 1980s, established Grossman’s reputation as a 20th-century Tolstoy.
The Writers on Recordings series invites contemporary authors to discuss the legendary voices that have meant the most to them
The Writers on Recordings series invites contemporary authors to discuss the legendary voices that have meant the most to them.
In her latest work Guestbook: Ghost Stories Leanne Shapton, through a series of stories and vignettes, encounters the uncanny.
In her first book Dressed, Shahidha Bari explores the hidden memories, meanings and ideas which are wrapped up in our clothes; themes of privacy, freedom, love and objectification are treated garment by garment.
Listen back to an evening of readings and discussion from three outstanding poets, Mary Jean Chan, Will Harris and Sarah Howe.
To mark the publication of Niven Govinden’s This Brutal House (Dialogue Books), we hosted a round table discussion about LGBTQI+ literature and culture
An evening of discussion and poetry readings with poets Kayo Chingonyi, Bhanu Kapil, Ilya Kaminsky and New York Times book critic Parul Sehgal
In Full Surrogacy Now, Sophie Lewis takes on the surrogacy industry – worth over one billion dollars a year in the USA alone, and famously exploitative – with a unique and explosive argument: we need more surrogacy, not less!
The two poets read from and discussed their new collections.
Novelist, journalist and translator Keith Gessen talks about his latest novel A Terrible Country, which investigates Russia’s past and present through the eyes of a Russian-American who moves from New York to Moscow to care for his elderly grandmother.
Sally Rooney breathes new life into fiction. Her novels deal with ordinary life in all its unexpected ways.