Celebrating 160 years of Beatrix Potter
This week marks the 160th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth. In this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by Penny Bradshaw, author of A...
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Tim Whitmarsh: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Tim Whitmarsh, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge and author of Rome’s Age of Revolution: A...
Dave Eggers: Contrapposto
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the novelist Dave Eggers, talking about his new book Contrapposto . Dave tells me why, after ye...
Ben Rhodes: A History of the United States in 15 Speeches
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the former Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes, talking about his new book All We Say: A History of t...
Carlo Rovelli: 85 Seconds to Midnight
In this week's Book Club podcast, I'm joined by the theoretical physicist and writer Carlo Rovelli to discuss his new book 85 Seconds to Mid...
Frank Cottrell-Boyce: How Our Children Live Now
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the Children’s Laureate, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, whose new book, A British Childhood: How Our Chi...
Andrea Wulf: George Forster and the Search for Humanity
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Andrea Wulf, talking about her fascinating new book, The Traveller: George Forster and the Sear...
Emily Wilson: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Emily Wilson, the scholar and translator of Homer and Seneca, among many others. She tells me w...
Siri Hustvedt: Ghost Stories
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Siri Hustvedt, talking about her new book, Ghost Stories, a memoir of her long and loving marri...
Alexander the Great: God, King, Man.
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Edmund Richardson, author of a new biography of Alexander the Great called Alexander: God, King...
Jeffrey Winters: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Jeffrey Winters, whose new book The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies makes th...
The Poems of Sylvia Plath
My guests on this week’s Book Club podcast are Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil, editors of the new The Poems of Sylvia Plath , a variorum c...
Sophia Smith Galer: How to Kill a Language
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Sophia Smith-Galer, talking about her new book How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and t...
Caroline Bicks: My Year of Fear with Stephen King
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Caroline Bicks, who tells me how she put her academic work on Shakespeare to one side to produc...
Joe Sacco: The Once and Future Riot
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the reporter – cartoonist Joe Sacco, talking about his most recent book The Once and Future Rio...
Mason Currey: Making Art and Making a Living
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Mason Currey, author of the new book Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Cr...
Yann Martel: Son of Nobody
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Yann Martel, talking about coming late to Homer, definitely not being influenced by Pale Fire ,...
Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Stefan Fatsis, whose classic Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World...
Howard Jacobson: Howl
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson, whose new novel Howl emerges from his rage a...
Lionel Shriver: A Better Life
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Lionel Shriver, whose new novel A Better Life offers among other things a savage send-up of lib...