Little Atoms 562 - John Lanchester's The Wall
John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He has worked as a football reporter, obituary writer, book editor, restaurant critic, and deputy editor of the London Review of Books, where he is a contr...
5 Mar 201929min
Little Atoms 561 - Ece Temelkuran's How To Lose A Country
Ece Temelkuran is an award-winning Turkish novelist and commentator. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and Frankfurter Allgemeine, and her novels include Wom...
1 Mar 201931min
Little Atoms 560 - Dr Julia Shaw's Making Evil
Dr Julia Shaw is a scientist in the Department of Psychology at University College London (UCL). Her academic work, teaching and role as an expert witness have focused on different ways of understandi...
26 Feb 201933min
Little Atoms 559 - Deborah Lipstadt's Antisemitism Here And Now
Deborah Lipstadt is Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. Her books include The Eichmann Trial, Denial: holocaust history on trial (a National Jewish Book...
20 Feb 201941min
Little Atoms 558 - Kristen Ghodsee's Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Kristen R. Ghodsee was travelling in Europe, and spent the summer of 1990 witnessing first-hand the initial hope and euphoria that followed the sudden and unexpected...
12 Feb 201935min
Little Atoms 557 - Georgina Harding's Land of the Living
Georgina Harding is the author of three previous novels: The Solitude of Thomas Cave, The Spy Game and, most recently, Painter of Silence, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. ...
5 Feb 201928min
Little Atoms 556 - Simon Garfield's In Miniature
Simon Garfield is the author of seventeen acclaimed books of non-fiction including Timekeepers, A Notable Woman (as editor), To the Letter, On the Map, Just My Type and Mauve. His study of AIDS in Bri...
29 Jan 201931min
Little Atoms 555 - Alexander Chee's How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee is the bestselling author of the novels The Queen of the Night and Edinburgh. He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, an editor at large at Virginia Quarterly Review, and a cri...
22 Jan 201926min
