Episodes

  • Christmas Gate

    Christmas Gate
    Dec 1 2025
    Nikhil and Raph are joined by Ben Sims, who has a Substack newsletter called 'Short Stories Once a Month', to discuss Max Beerbohm's A Christmas Garland (1912) and Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate (1986).

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    58 mins
  • Rhapsodes

    Rhapsodes
    Nov 6 2025
    Raph and Nikhil are joined by David Egan, Koç University, Istanbul, to talk about Robert Bringhurst's A Story As Sharp As a Knife and Ismail Kadare's The File on H (tr. David Bellos).

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    56 mins
  • Heaven's Thirst

    Heaven's Thirst
    Aug 31 2025
    Nikhil and Raph are joined by Alistair Henfrey, Head of English at Winchester College, to talk about Mark Doty's Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (1996) and Adam Mars-Jones's The Waters of Thirst (1993).

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    59 mins
  • Plums and Poppies

    Plums and Poppies
    Jul 31 2025
    Raph and Nikhil are joined, for the last episode in our series on short story collections, by Henry Oliver, author among other things of the Substack newsletter The Common Reader, to discuss Jane Gardam's 1994 collection Going Into a Dark Room.

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    57 mins
  • Indus Valley Picnics

    Indus Valley Picnics
    Jul 13 2025
    Nikhil and Raph are joined by Supriya Nair, one of the hosts of The Lit Pickers Podcast, to discuss the Pakistani-American writer Daniyal Mueenuddin's 2009 collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.

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    58 mins
  • Cat Crystal

    Cat Crystal
    Jun 1 2025
    Raph and Nikhil are joined again by Rey Conquer, author of the forthcoming How To Live Together (Fitzcarraldo), to discuss Adalbert Stifter's Motley Stones (1853, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole, NYRB Classics).

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    57 mins
  • Crocodile Shops

    Crocodile Shops
    Apr 16 2025
    Nikhil and Raph are joined by the writer and translator Joshua Billings to talk about Bruno Schulz's 1934 collection Sklepy Cynamonowe, translated from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska in 1963.

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    53 mins
  • Labour Writes

    Labour Writes
    Mar 15 2025
    Raph and Nikhil are joined by Lucy Jackson, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, to talk about the American writer Tillie Olsen's 1961 collection of short stories, Tell Me a Riddle.

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    48 mins