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Democracy at Risk: Salomé Saqué on Resisting the Far Right 47:56

1d ago47:56

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In this pivotal episode, Adam Biles speaks with French journalist and author Salomé Saqué about her urgent new book, Résister. Recorded two days after the death of French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and coinciding with Donald Trump’s second inauguration, this conversation delves into the global rise of far-right movements, their strategies, …

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Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 2 1:01:05

9d ago1:01:05

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For the second part of this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam get help from novelist Claire-Louise Bennett and Philosophy professor Foad Dizadji-Bahmani to explore how it challenges conventional ideas of narrative, language, and meaning. As always, our Bloomcasters invite listeners into a spirited and thought-provoking conversa…

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Claire-Louise Bennett returns to the Pond 59:56

14d ago59:56

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Originally published by The Stinging Fly Press in Ireland on 2015, Claire-Louise Bennett’s POND found a wider audience with its UK publisher, the then nascent Fitzcarraldo Editions—the paradigm-shifting house that is currently celebrating its 10th birthday. POND is an extraordinarily erudite book, which wears that erudition extraordinarily lightly.…

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Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 1 58:03

16d ago58:03

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Happy Joycension Day! For this year’s Bloomcast Holiday Special, Alice, Lex, and Adam reunited for a lively discussion of Watt by Samuel Beckett, asking: How does Beckett’s minimalist, disintegrative style compare to James Joyce’s expansive, celebratory storytelling? What makes this novel so uniquely absurd and profound? And why does Watt feel both…

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Yasmin Zaher on The Coin 55:16

28d ago55:16

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The publication of The Coin by Yasmin Zaher marks the arrival of a determinedly contemporary, sometimes confounding, always compelling voice in English-language literature. Telling the story of a young Palestinian woman, struggling to make her life in New York City, we quickly get to know a woman of complexities and contradictions… She’s the heir t…

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David Runciman: “The history of ideas is about letting people believe in things that they hadn't previously thought possible…” 1:11:01

1M ago1:11:01

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In a world overwhelmed by complex political challenges and endless commentary, where can we turn for insight into how we got here—and where we might go next? From the survival of democracy to the rise of AI, from confronting inequality to resisting surveillance, today's problems demand deep thinking. In his latest book The History of Ideas, David R…

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Dorian Lynskey on the Stories We Tell About the End of the World… 1:08:58

1M ago1:08:58

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Why are we so obsessed with the apocalypse? Is it a reaction to the state of the world—climate catastrophe, regional wars threatening global conflict, pandemic scares, and the unsettling rise of AI—or does it run deeper? Is it inherent to the modern world or, perhaps, the human condition? And why are we so captivated by apocalyptic stories in books…

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Emmanuel Carrère on V13: “A unique experience of horror, pity, proximity and presence…” 1:03:38

2M ago1:03:38

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On the night of Friday, 13 November 2015, three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Stade de France during a football match between France and Germany, attended by President François Hollande. By 1am the next morning, 130 victims were dead, and 416 others were injured, many critically. Seven attackers were killed, and two more died in a …

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Denis Hirson: “They Called My Father A One-Man Revolution” 57:41

2M ago57:41

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Denis Hirson’s My Thirty Minute Bar Mitzvah can be read as many different books. It can be read as a new, deeply personal, take on a pivotal episode in the history of South Africa. It can be read as a tender reflection on the mind of the author as he teetered on the cusp of adulthood. It can be read as a portrait of one particular wing of the Jewis…

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BONUS: Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding (in conversation with Amanda Dennis) 59:56

2M ago59:56

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In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman called Clémentine who has moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective called les colleuses. Meanwhile, in 1972, Florence and…

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Colombe Schneck on The Paris Trilogy (with Translator Natasha Lehrer) 55:35

3M ago55:35

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Colombe Schneck’s THE PARIS TRILOGY is a book—or rather three books, first published separately in French—about growing up, about friendship, about love, about family, about class, about womanhood and the patriarchy…and about swimming. In short, about every side of a life, as it just happens to take place in Paris. Rendered in crisp, fluid English …

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Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian 1:09:23

3M ago1:09:23

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A woman speaks to us from her room in a residential home, of some description. She reflects on her life, her family, her pets, on time—the past, present and the future—on Manson Family Alumnus Leslie Van Houyten, on History, on Death, on the Occult, on what it means to be “sensitive”…and so much more besides. All the while she is distracted, bother…

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Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry” 56:12

3M ago56:12

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This week’s guest is Aysegul Savas, whose mesmerising third novel, The Anthropologists is about a great many things. It’s about what it means to leave one’s home. It’s about attempting to lay down roots elsewhere. It’s about the mystery, banality, and all-consuming nature of love. It’s about the dynamics of friendship, and how those are stress-test…

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On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh) 1:01:11

4M ago1:01:11

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For this special episode, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Adam Biles was joined by novelists Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee for a wide-ranging discussion that takes the temperature (and the pulse!) of the book industry, from bookshops, to publishers, to prizes, to festivals... Enjoy! Buy The Shakespeare and Company Book…

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Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024) 55:28

4M ago55:28

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Rachel Kushner’s fourth novel Creation Lake is a spy novel stacked with ideas. As our fast-thinking, gun-packing protagonist wends her way down to the south of France, charged—by forces unknown—with infiltrating and sowing chaos at a commune of eco-warriors, her mission leads her into exhilarating reflections on activism, on charisma, on neandertha…

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Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits 42:04

5M ago42:04

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Our guest in the writer’s studio this week is Ferdia Lennon, whose debut novel Glorious Exploits depicts the ancient world in a way readers will never have experienced it before. Set in Syracuse in 412 BC, after the catastrophic attempt by Athens to invade the city, Lampo and Gelon, two out-of-work potters, have the harebrained idea of staging a pr…

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Roxy Dunn on As Young As This 37:35

5M ago37:35

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Our guest this week is Roxy Dunn, whose debut novel As Young As This is a meticulous examination of the lives and loves of young women today. Told, strikingly, in the second person, it is structured by the the succession of first boys, then men in the protagonist Margot’s life, and populated by dysfunctional friends and a wisecracking, but deeply c…

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Democracy at Risk: Salomé Saqué on Resisting the Far Right 47:56

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Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 2 1:01:05

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Claire-Louise Bennett returns to the Pond 59:56

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Bloomcast Holiday Special: Watt by Samuel Beckett, Episode 1 58:03

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Yasmin Zaher on The Coin 55:16

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David Runciman: “The history of ideas is about letting people believe in things that they hadn't previously thought possible…” 1:11:01

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Dorian Lynskey on the Stories We Tell About the End of the World… 1:08:58

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Emmanuel Carrère on V13: “A unique experience of horror, pity, proximity and presence…” 1:03:38

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Denis Hirson: “They Called My Father A One-Man Revolution” 57:41

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BONUS: Lauren Elkin on Scaffolding (in conversation with Amanda Dennis) 59:56

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Colombe Schneck on The Paris Trilogy (with Translator Natasha Lehrer) 55:35

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Lynne Tillman on American History, Human Absurdity, and why Trump should have become a Comedian 1:09:23

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Ayşegül Savaş on Love, Rootlessness, and “The Age of Poetry” 56:12

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On the State of the (Book)World, with Lauren Groff and Neel Mukherjee (live in Edinburgh) 1:01:11

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Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake (Booker Prize SHORTLIST 2024) 55:28

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Ferdia Lennon on Glorious Exploits 42:04

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Roxy Dunn on As Young As This 37:35

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