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...
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Listen to Spectator Books, a Arts podcast by The Spectator. Stream 478 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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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...
Jane Rogoyska: Hotel Exile – Paris in the Shadow of War
My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is the historian Jane Rogoyska, whose new book Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War tells the b...
Francis Spufford: Nonesuch
My guest this week is Francis Spufford, whose fabulous new novel Nonesuch is a fantasy adventure set during the Blitz containing magical Naz...
What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?
My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is the philosophy professor Hanna Pickard, whose new book is What Would You Do Alone in a Cage wit...
Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation – revisited
In this week’s Book Club podcast my guest is Eric Schlosser, the investigative journalist whose Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-A...
Caroline Moorehead: The Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Caroline Moorehead, whose new book A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and...
How big tech companies steal your attention
This week’s Book Club podcast deals with attention: what it is, why it is in crisis, how it came to be the biggest business in the world, an...
Joanna Kavenna: How To Play A Game Without Rules
My guest in this week’s Book Club is Joanna Kavenna, who talks about her witty, philosophically riddling new novel Seven: Or, How To Play A...
C. Thi Nguyen: How To Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game
In this week’s Book Club podcast, my guest is the philosophy professor C. Thi Nguyen, whose new book The Score: How To Stop Playing Someone...
Books of the Year | Sam Leith & Philip Hensher
Sam Leith is joined by Philip Hensher to pick over their books of the year. Become a Spectator subscriber today to access this podcast witho...
Speaker series: Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Storm
The Spectator ’s associate editor Toby Young sits down with master storyteller Bernard Cornwell, author of more than 50 international bestse...
Jonathan C. Slaght: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Jonathan C. Slaght, whose new book is Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian...
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