Episodes
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Nikhil and Raph talk to Henry Eliot about Yūko Tsushima's Territory of Light (1977/78, tr. Geraldine Harcourt, 2018) and Sonallah Ibrahim's That Smell (1966, tr. Robyn Cresswell, 2013).
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Raph and Nikhil talk to novelist and critic Anjum Hasan about Anita Desai's In Custody (1984) and Dag Solstad's Shyness and Dignity (1994, tr. Sverre Lyngstad 2006).
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Episodes manquant?
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Nikhil and Raph are joined by writer and translator Arshia Sattar to discuss Magda Szabo's The Door (1987, tr. Len Rix 2005) and Margaret Forster's Lady's Maid (1990).
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Raph and Nikhil are joined by Richard Foster, teacher and museum curator at Winchester College, to talk about Hisham Matar's A Month in Siena (2019) and T. J. Clark's The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006).
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Nikhil and Raph are joined by Peter Cherry, author of Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film: Transcultural Identity and Migration in Britain and Assistant Director of the British Institute at Ankara, to discuss Yusuf Atılgan's Motherland Hotel (tr. Fred Stark, 1973/2017) and Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac (1984).
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Raph and Nikhil are joined by Oliver Soden, author of Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward, to discuss two novels about spiritualist mediums: Muriel Spark's The Bachelors and R. K. Narayan's The English Teacher.
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Nikhil and Raph discuss Amos Tutuola's 1952 novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard and Angela Carter's 1979 collection of dark fairy tales, The Bloody Chamber.
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Raph and Nikhil welcome guest Minoo Dinshaw, author of Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman, to talk about Javier Marías's All Souls and Javier Cercas's Soldiers of Salamis.
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Nikhil and Raph discuss two experimental biographies of minor writers: A. J. A. Symons's The Quest for Corvo and Iman Mersal's Traces of Inayat.
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Raph and Nikhil are joined by Rey Conquer, author of Reading Colour: George, Rilke, Kandinsky, Lasker-Schüler, to talk about Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond and Ella Maillart's The Cruel Way.
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Nikhil and Raph discuss Elena Ferrante's The Days of Abandonment and Domenico Starnone's Trick.
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Raph and Nikhil discuss Kurban Said's Ali and Nino and Tom Reiss's The Orientalist.
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