Episodes

  • Heaven's Thirst

    Heaven's Thirst
    Aug 31 2025
    Nikhil and Raph are joined by Alistair Henfrey, Head of English at Winchester College, to talk about Mark Doty's Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (1996) and Adam Mars-Jones's The Waters of Thirst (1993).

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    59 mins
  • Plums and Poppies

    Plums and Poppies
    Jul 31 2025
    Raph and Nikhil are joined, for the last episode in our series on short story collections, by Henry Oliver, author among other things of the Substack newsletter The Common Reader, to discuss Jane Gardam's 1994 collection Going Into a Dark Room.

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    57 mins
  • Indus Valley Picnics

    Indus Valley Picnics
    Jul 13 2025
    Nikhil and Raph are joined by Supriya Nair, one of the hosts of The Lit Pickers Podcast, to discuss the Pakistani-American writer Daniyal Mueenuddin's 2009 collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.

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    58 mins
  • Cat Crystal

    Cat Crystal
    Jun 1 2025
    Raph and Nikhil are joined again by Rey Conquer, author of the forthcoming How To Live Together (Fitzcarraldo), to discuss Adalbert Stifter's Motley Stones (1853, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole, NYRB Classics).

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    57 mins
  • Crocodile Shops

    Crocodile Shops
    Apr 16 2025
    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.

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    53 mins
  • Labour Writes

    Labour Writes
    Mar 15 2025
    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.

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    48 mins
  • Dolphins in the Bosphorus

    Dolphins in the Bosphorus
    Feb 15 2025
    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).

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    57 mins
  • Tunnel Vision

    Tunnel Vision
    Jan 15 2025
    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).

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    58 mins