The Minor Books Podcast

Nikhil and Raph are joined by the writer and translator Joshua Billings to talk about Bruno Schulz's 1934 collection Sklepy Cynamonowe, translated from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska in 1963. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Raph and Nikhil are joined by Lucy Jackson, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, to talk about the American writer Tillie Olsen's 1961 collection of short stories, Tell Me a Riddle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nikhil and Raph are joined by Peter Cherry of the British Institute at Ankara in the first episode of a new series about short story collections. In this episode, they discuss Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe's translation of selected stories by the Turkish writer Sait Faik: A Useless Man (2014). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Raph and Nikhil talk to Peter Huhne about Ernesto Sabato's El Túnel (1948, tr. Margaret Sayers Peden) and Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac's D'Entre Les Morts (1954, tr. Geoffrey Sainsbury). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

R. K. Narayan, The English Teacher; Muriel Spark, The Bachelors Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond; Ella Maillart, The Cruel Way Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment; Domenico Starnone, Trick Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kurban Said, Ali and Nino; Tom Reiss, The Orientalist Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.