On Arendt and Ambivalence
SRUTOKIRTI BASAK, KATHERINE FRANCO - Feminist thinker Jacqueline Rose on the merits of uncertainty.
- Jul 15
- 10 min
A Tortoise with a Heavy Shell
AAMIR KADERBHAI - Ruth Ozeki on Zen meditation and the art of writing.
- Jul 14
- 9 min
A Brush With Death
JOHN MAIER - Maggi Hambling on art, smoking and death.
- Apr 26
- 8 min
Lost in Place
ELIZA BROWNING - Cal Flyn on the aesthetics of abandonment.
- Apr 22
- 10 min
The Violence of Language
PAIGE ALLEN - Rebecca F. Kuang on her anticolonial Oxford fantasy novel.
- Apr 18
- 9 min
Material World
ELEANOR HALLESY - Helen Thompson on how we got here and how we get to net zero.
- Jan 14
- 6 min
A Conversational Art No. 3, Natalie Perman
ELIZABETH MURPHY - In conversation with Oxford student poet Natalie Perman.
- Jan 12
- 9 min
The Man with the Rawlsian Tattoo
BECKY CLARK - Moral philosopher Ted Lecherman on the ethics of AI.
- Aug 30, 2021
- 11 min
Jumping Down the Lift Shaft
ADAM BERBIC - In conversation with the novelist and journalist, Will Self.
- Aug 16, 2021
- 8 min
Rethinking Reality
NIKITA OSTROVSKY - in conversation with the physicist and writer, Carlo Rovelli
- Jul 6, 2021
- 8 min
How I Settle Myself
JULIA MERICAN – An interview with the writer and academic, Sally Bayley.
- Jun 7, 2021
- 7 min
A Conversational Art No. 2, Larissa Pham
JULIA MERICAN – In conversation with artist and writer, Larissa Pham.
- May 17, 2021
- 7 min
Refuse to Do the Crappo Thing
TOYE OLADINNI - In conversation with the Man Booker Prize-winning author, George Saunders.
- May 10, 2021
- 9 min
Time to Lose
TESS SOLOMON - The pandemic has exposed the ways in which time can both distort and be distorted.
- Apr 23, 2021
- 4 min
A Conversational Art No.1, Caleb Azumah Nelson
CALEB AZUMAH NELSON - When writing Open Water, I was aware that this idea of truth kept emerging ...
- Jan 4, 2021
- 9 min
Rebel with a Cause
HELENA MURPHY - In conversation with the Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh.
- Dec 14, 2020
- 8 min
Capturing Obscurity
Altair Brandon-Salmon interviews Jack Davidson: the photographers who prefers the anonymity of mottled grain in the age of celebrity...
- Nov 15, 2020
- 6 min
Crossing Over
LAILA UJAYLI - In conversation with award-winning Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir
- Nov 8, 2020
- 9 min
A Portrait of the Actress
ELLA JOHNSON in conversation with Dame Janet Suzman: on acting and activism.
- Nov 4, 2020
- 8 min
Maintaining Momentum
ALEXANDER HAVERON-JONES speaks to Rowena Chiu, #MeToo activist, former Executive Assistant and survivor of Harvey Weinstein.
- Nov 1, 2020
- 11 min
Spinning Mind
ELEANOR HALLESY - In conversation with Alastair Campbell: on stigma, toxic masculinity, and social media trolls.
- Apr 4, 2020
- 10 min
Tales of Revolution
ANDREEA IULIA SCRIDON - I was born in Romania several years after the Romanian Revolution.
- Mar 22, 2020
- 6 min
In Conversation with Armando Iannucci
KATIE MENNIS - Armando Iannucci on Brexit, David Copperfield and satire in the Trump era.
- Mar 17, 2020
- 7 min
In Conversation with Hala Alyan
SIMONE MARIE - ‘What do we do with heartache? Tow it’: an interview with Hala Alyan
- Mar 16, 2020
- 6 min
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
- Jan 1, 2020
- 11 min
Prometheus Disclosed
LIBBY CHERRY - Edward Snowden's autobiography places the 2013 revelations in a new perspective
- Dec 27, 2019
- 10 min
Before Eve
IONA RANGLEY-WILSON - An interview with Luke Jennings about the books behind Killing Eve
- Dec 14, 2019
- 9 min
A Revolution in Benidorm
SAM MCILHAGGA - An interview with filmmaker Jonathan Meades
- Jul 16, 2019
- 4 min
The Anxiety of Influence
JESSIE GOETZINGER - 'By nature symbolic, skeptical or dream-ridden': an interview with Yelena Moskovich.
- Jul 12, 2019
- 5 min
"Fanatacism and Shoppping": In Conversation with Simon Schama
LOUIS DAVIDSON - Simon Schama on public art, free speech, and life as an expat.
- Jun 23, 2019
- 18 min
'I Don't Think I'm Rude'
JOHN MAIER - A conversation with notorious interviewer Lynn Barber.
- May 6, 2019
- 9 min
Beware of Cliche
ELEANOR LISCHKA - An interview with the woman who didn't win the Nobel Prize.
- Apr 17, 2019
- 7 min
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, 2019
- 7 min
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...
- Nov 15, 2018
- 9 min
Fitz-Roving
ARJUNA KESHVANI-HAM finds out if a Charing-Cross bookshop is still the hub of London bohemian life
- Nov 15, 2018
- 14 min
Flaws and Forgiveness
DANIEL KODSI - in discussion with philosopher Miranda Fricker on the beauty of human frailty and the reality of ethical life.
- Apr 17, 2018
- 8 min
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, 2018
- 20 min
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, 2018
- 9 min
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 16, 2018
- 14 min
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...
- Mar 7, 2018
- 7 min
Big Clunking Fist
JOSHUA YOUNG - The less flattering truth was that Gordon was stuck.
- Mar 7, 2018
- 8 min
'Me Too' in China
AOIFE CANTRILL - Leta Hong Fincher is one of the leading authors writing in English about contemporary Chinese feminism.
- Mar 7, 2018
- 8 min
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, 2018
- 11 min
Genealogical Anxiety
DANIEL KODSI - Srinivasan has also written about ideology and the ineffable, and is currently working on a book on 'genealogical anxiety'.
- Jun 21, 2017
- 10 min
The Consequential Philosopher
JOHN MAIER -Peter Singer talks to ORB about the haughtiness of critics, alienation, suffering ,and the importance of academic freedom.
- Jun 11, 2017
- 11 min
Escaping the Revolution
NILOO SHARIFI - The Iranian poet Esmail Khoi has turned his memories of revolution into poems that mourn the loss of his motherland.
- Jun 9, 2017
- 9 min
Mr Clegg's Zoetrope
BENJAMIN DAVIES - The ORB interviews Nick Clegg and Ed Balls on why we should be reading political books.
- Jun 8, 2017
- 11 min
Two Kinds of Murder
DANIEL KODSI - What is the history behind ‘genocide’ and ‘crimes against humanity’? Philippe Sands speaks to the ORB.
- Jun 8, 2017
- 6 min
We Are All Prince Hamlet
KATIE MENNIS - Award-winning actor and director Derek Jacobi talks to the ORB about conspiracy theories and student acting ...
- Apr 28, 2017
- 4 min
Bewildering Birdsong
I was ambushed the other morning by a jay. I’d never seen one before, or at least I’d never stopped to wonder ‘what was that?’. It seemed...