Revving Forever
Camille Ralphs on poetry, difficulty and history.
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Reading and Reading
Hatchards manager Francis Cleverdon on contemporary bookselling
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Lost Worlds: In Conversation with Professor Avi Shlaim
By 1951 the Iraqi-Jewish community, which had been in the region for over two thousand years, was faced with an existential choice.
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Poetry as Resistance: Interview with Marilyn Chin
In this interview, Jennifer talked to poet Marilyn Chin to find out more about her reflections on writing.
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Seeing Double: An Interview with Katherine Brabon
We all feel a bit like ‘a different person’ sometimes - even that phrase interests me. Different from what?
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Cheek by Jowl
Andrew O’Hagan arrives in the back of a taxi from central London, he rushes in and apologises for running late.
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"North Woods": Interview with Daniel Mason
An interview with Dr Daniel Mason, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Stanford faculty psychiatrist, and author of North Woods (2023).
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Q&A with Professor Nigel Biggar
Professor Nigel Biggar CBE answers questions from the ORB
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Binding the Beautiful
'Do you suppose any mortal has skill enough to make a butterfly?’
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A Man of Letters
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Eco-Theorism
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English the Obscure
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Linguistic Oddities
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On Arendt and Ambivalence
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A Tortoise with a Heavy Shell
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A Brush With Death
JOHN MAIER - Maggi Hambling on art, smoking and death.
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Lost in Place
ELIZA BROWNING - Cal Flyn on the aesthetics of abandonment.
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The Violence of Language
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Material World
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A Conversational Art No. 3, Natalie Perman
ELIZABETH MURPHY - In conversation with Oxford student poet Natalie Perman.
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