This week the hedgehog and the fox explore literary anonymity in the company of John Mullan – not the sort of anonymity where the author’s name has simply been lost… Read More
John Mullan on anon.
Category: From the Archive
Oliver Ready: Translating Crime and Punishment
I visited Oliver Ready a few years ago at St Antony’s College, Oxford, where he is a research fellow in Russian society and culture, to hear about his five-year engagement… Read More
Edith Grossman on why translation matters
This programme is one from the archive, a conversation I had back in 2010 with doyenne of Spanish translators Edith Grossman in which she makes the case for taking translation… Read More
Robert Irwin: in praise of the camel
This programme from the archive features a conversation I had back in 2010 with Robert Irwin about the extraordinary world of the camel. Robert is a true polymath: Arabist, historian,… Read More
More than happiness, the Buddhist and Stoic way
Last month, I spoke to existential psychotherapist Antonia Macaro about her new book, More than Happiness, which investigates ‘Buddhist and Stoic wisdom for a secular age’. Antonia writes in her… Read More
Picasso drawings: “the backbone of his art”
In this week’s programme I’m talking to Christopher Lloyd about the crucial role drawing played in the art of Pablo Picasso. What follows is a lightly edited extract from our… Read More
Horse dramas and flea circuses
‘What do we mean when we say an animal performs?’ My guests on this programme are Karen Raber, professor of English at the University of Mississippi, and Monica Mattfeld, assistant… Read More
David Bellos: what makes a translation good?
In this interview, part of the Conversations with Translators series, I talk to David Bellos of Princeton University about his book on translation, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?,… Read More
Dur’s beer fer dogs: the joys of Liverpudlian English
Tony Crowley’s new Liverpool English Dictionary is a treasure trove for anyone interested in the rich variety of spoken and written language found in this country. I suspect that even… Read More
Chris Chambers on the sins of psychology
“Remember that science is nothing more than a competition for status in a field of storytellers. You are doing what the system requires of you [in committing fraud], and, in… Read More