A.S. Byatt and Toril Moi about The Children’s Book
A. S. Byatt was named one of Britain’s fifty greatest writers by The Times in 2008. Her literary breakthrough, Possession: A Romance, was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize. Byatt visited the House ...
22 Juni 201859min
Daniel Mendelsohn and Bernhard Ellefsen about An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
Daniel Mendelsohn is a Classics professor, and teaches his students the classic epic The Odyssey. One Spring, his 81 year old father decides to take his class. But what kind of a hero was Oddyseus, re...
1 Juni 201856min
Ariel Levy and Bernhard Ellefsen on The Rules Do Not Apply
Ariel Levy is a successful journalist in The New Yorker, where she often writes about women who break with the traditional expectations in how you express and live gender and sexuality. She has a nice...
11 Maj 201857min
Paul Beatty and Dan Andersen on The Sellout
The Sellout is about an America so steeped in its racist history that race becomes unavoidable. But nobody wants to talk about it, and there is no end of human oblivion, foolishness and evil. The Guar...
4 Maj 201852min
Ali Smith and Linn Ullmann about Autumn
Autumn (translated into Norwegian by Merete Alfsen) is the first in Scottish Ali Smith’s season quartet. Winter has already come out in English. In both books, hope, warmth, sensuality and humanity is...
27 Apr 201857min
Peter Frankopan on the Crusades as seen from Asia
In this episode, you can hear a lecture by Oxford historian and author of The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan, about the history of the Crusades, as seen from Asia. The lecture was delivered as part of th...
16 Mars 20181h 5min
Colson Whitehead and Karin Haugen on The Underground Railroad
Colson Whiteheads novel The Underground Railroad was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. It soon became a #1 New York Times Bestseller, it got picked by Oprah Winfrey for her ...
9 Mars 201849min
Martin Puchner and Helge Jordheim about the literature shaping the world
In this episode, you can hear a conversation between Martin Puchner and Helge Jordheim about literature’s role in shaping the world. What came first – the world as we know it, or the stories about the...
2 Mars 20181h 7min
