Writers and Company
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Aug 9, 2018
Eleanor Wachtel is a national treasure. Her insightful interviews with the world's leading literary figures are not to be missed.
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Poet Raymond Antrobus on hearing, seeing and grieving through verse
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Colm Toibin on the unspoken and powerful dynamics between mothers and sons
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Alice Oswald on poetry, nature and the shedding of identity
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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The beautiful, melancholy world of Anita Desai
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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James Runcie on the beauty, sorrow and genius of Johann Sebastian Bach
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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How Hisham Matar's writing reflects life under dictatorship and the pain of his father's abduction
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Irish writers Michael Collins, Claire Keegan, Colum McCann and Nuala O'Faolain reflect on home and away
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Catherine Lacey imagines a character without race or gender in her novel, Pew
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Martin Amis on The Zone of Interest and Primo Levi’s unshakeable influence
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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James McBride on the complicated history of race in the United States
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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How writer and scholar Anne Carson used elegy to piece together fragments of her late brother
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Xiaolu Guo traces her unlikely journey from a rural Chinese fishing village to life in London as a writer
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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The incomparable Philip Roth: looking back on his life in fiction
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Alain Mabanckou on his profound connection to the Republic of the Congo
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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The enduring magic of The Little Prince: with Stacy Schiff, Mark Osborne and Éric Dupont
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Jane Howard looks back on learning, love and her marriage to Kingsley Amis
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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How fighting for Indigenous rights shaped Alexis Wright as a storyteller
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Dionne Brand, Margaret Drabble, Deborah Eisenberg & Andrew O'Hagan reflect on life and writing
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney on the place of politics in poetry
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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How writing helped Lore Segal survive a traumatic wartime childhood
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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A virtuoso of the short story, Lydia Davis's work is surprising and memorable
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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In her prizewinning fiction, Sigrid Nunez deals with life — and death — with empathy and wit
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Looking back at A.S. Byatt, the celebrated English novelist and imaginative intellectual
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Nora Krug asks tough questions about her German family's wartime past
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien on fictionalizing his war stories
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Jesmyn Ward on exploring the stories of America's South
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Nov 05, 2023 |