John Freeman on Philip Roth’s America
The new HBO mini series The Plot Against America is based on the Philip Roth novel (2004) by the same name. The novel tells the counterfactual story of Charles Lindberg’s presidency, based on the real...
22 Maj 202051min
Njabulo Ndebele, Koleka Putuma and Elise Dybvig about South Afrika
Njabulo Ndebele grew up during the apartheid, and is one of South Africa's leading writers and intellectuals. He is the former vice principal at the University of Cape Town, and the author of the grou...
20 Mars 20201h 24min
Michael Pollan and Andreas Liebe Delsett
Through titles such as Cooked, The Omnivore’s dilemma and In defense of Food, Michael Pollan, Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley’ and of the Practice of Non-Fiction at Harvard University, has dist...
13 Mars 20201h 5min
Gloria Gervitz in conversation with Athena Farrokhzad
Mexican poet Gloria Gervitz has been writing the same poem for over forty years. The epic poem Migrations (Migraciones) is one of the greatest poetic projects of our time – a poem in constant movement...
24 Feb 20201h 24min
Lecture and conversation with Nesrine Malik
Is the assertion that freedom of expression is under pressure just a myth used to cover up more important political incompatibilities? In this event with the british-Sudanese author and Guardian col...
31 Jan 20201h 24min
Rachel Kushner and Finn Skårderud
In Norway, Rachel Kushner is best known for her 2014 novel The Flamethrowers, set in New York’s art world. In Kushner’s new, critically acclaimed and Booker nominated novel The Mars Room, we are intro...
11 Okt 201957min
Bad feminist: Roxane Gay and Eline Lund Fjæren
What if your view of the world is based on the experiences of black women, or those of working class, queer or transgendered women, and by that breaks with the way that the white middle class says a f...
27 Sep 20191h 1min
Igoni Barrett and Ane Farsethås on Blackass
What happens when blackness and whiteness are turned inside out? The Metamorphosis by Kafka is an obvious literary model when the Nigerian writer Igoni Barrett lets the main character of his last nove...
6 Sep 20191h 8min
