top of page
In Conversation with Anthony Anaxagorou
ZEHRA MUNIR - ‘I like to think of these poems as intellectual responses to systemic issues’: an interview with poet Anthony Anaxagorou
Mar 16, 20206 min read
Prometheus Disclosed
LIBBY CHERRY - Edward Snowden's autobiography places the 2013 revelations in a new perspective
Jan 1, 202011 min read
Before Eve
IONA RANGLEY-WILSON - An interview with Luke Jennings about the books behind Killing Eve
Dec 27, 201910 min read
A Revolution in Benidorm
SAM MCILHAGGA - An interview with filmmaker Jonathan Meades
Dec 14, 20199 min read
The Anxiety of Influence
JESSIE GOETZINGER - 'By nature symbolic, skeptical or dream-ridden': an interview with Yelena Moskovich.
Jul 16, 20194 min read
"Fanatacism and Shoppping": In Conversation with Simon Schama
LOUIS DAVIDSON - Simon Schama on public art, free speech, and life as an expat.
Jul 12, 20195 min read
'I Don't Think I'm Rude'
JOHN MAIER - A conversation with notorious interviewer Lynn Barber.
Jun 23, 201918 min read
Beware of Cliche
ELEANOR LISCHKA - An interview with the woman who didn't win the Nobel Prize.
May 6, 20199 min read
Rushdie's Reflections
In the city of Arles in southern France, Salman Rushdie took a pedagogic approach to the time-honoured question and answer...
Apr 17, 20197 min read
Bitch That I Am
‘The public voice of women’, the first of the two lectures on which Mary Beard’s Women & Power: A Manifesto (2017) is based, begins with...
Apr 17, 20197 min read
Fitz-Roving
ARJUNA KESHVANI-HAM finds out if a Charing-Cross bookshop is still the hub of London bohemian life
Nov 15, 20189 min read
Flaws and Forgiveness
DANIEL KODSI - in discussion with philosopher Miranda Fricker on the beauty of human frailty and the reality of ethical life.
Nov 15, 201814 min read
London’s Scowling Youth
‘I write toward what animates me, disturbs me’. This statement is not surprising coming from Guy Gunaratne. His debut novel In Our Mad...
Apr 17, 20188 min read
In a Quizzical Spirit: An Interview with Stephen Yablo
‘A philosopher’, Stephen Yablo quips, ‘is someone who says here is the thing that’s happening everywhere, all the time, throughout human...
Apr 17, 201820 min read
Discerning Obfuscation
Email is a tricky medium in which to interview. It lacks so many of the cues that give a sense of who someone is: body language, tone of...
Apr 17, 20189 min read
Flaws and Forgiveness: An Interview with Miranda Fricker
If it had been Christine Blasey Ford who alternately snivelled and screamed during her testimony before the US Senate, she would have...
Apr 16, 201814 min read
Big Clunking Fist
JOSHUA YOUNG - The less flattering truth was that Gordon was stuck.
Mar 7, 20187 min read
'Me Too' in China
AOIFE CANTRILL - Leta Hong Fincher is one of the leading authors writing in English about contemporary Chinese feminism.
Mar 7, 20188 min read
Bitch That I Am
RAFFAELLA SERO -Mary Beard does not have all the answers, but she asks the right questions about the attitudes of classical texts to women.
Mar 7, 20188 min read
Genealogical Anxiety
DANIEL KODSI - Srinivasan has also written about ideology and the ineffable, and is currently working on a book on 'genealogical anxiety'.
Mar 7, 201811 min read
bottom of page