Patricia Lockwood talks to John Lanchester about her debut novel No One is Talking About This.
Patricia Lockwood talks to John Lanchester about her debut novel No One is Talking About This.
Lauren Oyler talks to Olivia Sudjic about her debut novel, Fake Accounts.
Geoff Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage, published in 1997, is a brilliant account of attempting to write, and most often failing, a book about his great hero D.H. Lawrence. Now, more than two decades later, he has edited a selection of Lawrence's essays for Penguin. He talks about Lawrence and non-fiction with historian and biographer Frances Wilson.
John Lanchester discusses his chilling collection of short stories, which explores the uncanniness of modern life through demonic phones, haunted selfie-sticks and other technology gone horribly wrong.
Andrew O’Hagan discusses his new novel, Mayflies, with Edmund Gordon.
Akwaeke Emezi talks about their latest book, The Death of Vivek Oji, with Louisa Joyner, their editor at Faber.
Anne Enright talks to Andrew O’Hagan about her latest novel, Actress, and other works.
Julia Ebner discusses her experiences going undercover in various extremist groups, including White Supremacists, German Neo-Nazis and ‘Trad Wives’, as described in her new book, Going Dark.
Rachel Cusk talks to Chris Power about her latest book, Coventry, a collection of essays.
Economist Ann Pettifor talks to Grace Blakeley about the origins of the Green New Deal, and why we need it.
Colm Tóibín unpacks the work of Elizabeth Bishop and Thom Gunn, and the relationship between the poets, with help from recordings from the archive of 92nd Street Y in New York.
Anthony Wilks visits poet George Szirtes to find out about the story of Szirtes’ mother, Magda, a Hungarian photographer who survived two concentration camps and escaped Budapest for England with her family in 1956.
Adam Phillips talks to Devorah Baum about his latest book, 'Attention Seeking', which argues, among other things, that attention seeking is the best thing we do.
Tracy K. Smith, the 22nd Poet Laureate of the USA, talks to rising young poet Jay Bernard, and both read from their work.
Terry Eagleton presents his ideas on what makes funny things funny.