The Minor Books Podcast

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The Minor Books Podcast

Raph Cormack, Nikhil Krishnan and guests discuss minor works of literature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    Tunnel Vision

    Raph and Nikhil talk to Peter Huhne about Ernesto Sabato's El Túnel (1948, tr. Margaret Sayers Peden) and Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac's D'Entre Les Morts (1954, tr. Geoffrey Sainsbury). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    58 min

  2. 12/15/2024

    That Light

    Nikhil and Raph talk to Henry Eliot about Yūko Tsushima's Territory of Light (1977/78, tr. Geraldine Harcourt, 2018) and Sonallah Ibrahim's That Smell (1966, tr. Robyn Cresswell, 2013). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 1m

  3. 11/17/2024

    Indignity

    Raph and Nikhil talk to novelist and critic Anjum Hasan about Anita Desai's In Custody (1984) and Dag Solstad's Shyness and Dignity (1994, tr. Sverre Lyngstad 2006). Errata: We give the wrong date of publication for both books at points during the episode. In Custody was published not in 1988 but 1984; Shyness and Dignity was published not in 1999 but 1994. At 5:48, when Anjum Hasan talks about the Urdu language’s relationship with the Indian state, the sentence should have been ‘Urdu is not patronised to the extent that Hindi is’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 1m

  4. 10/14/2024

    Maid in Hungary

    Nikhil and Raph are joined by writer and translator Arshia Sattar to discuss Magda Szabo's The Door (1987, tr. Len Rix 2005) and Margaret Forster's Lady's Maid (1990). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 6m

  5. 09/14/2024

    Death in Siena

    Raph and Nikhil are joined by Richard Foster, teacher and museum curator at Winchester College, to talk about Hisham Matar's A Month in Siena (2019) and T. J. Clark's The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing (2006). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 4m

  6. 08/14/2024

    Motherland du Lac

    Nikhil and Raph are joined by Peter Cherry, author of Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film: Transcultural Identity and Migration in Britain and Assistant Director of the British Institute at Ankara, to discuss Yusuf Atılgan's Motherland Hotel (tr. Fred Stark, 1973/2017) and Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac (1984). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 5m

  7. 07/15/2024

    English Bachelors

    Raph and Nikhil are joined by Oliver Soden, author of Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward, to discuss two novels about spiritualist mediums: Muriel Spark's The Bachelors and R. K. Narayan's The English Teacher. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 9m

  8. 06/16/2024

    Bloody Drinkard

    Nikhil and Raph discuss Amos Tutuola's 1952 novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard and Angela Carter's 1979 collection of dark fairy tales, The Bloody Chamber. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    58 min
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Raph Cormack, Nikhil Krishnan and guests discuss minor works of literature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Nikhil Krishnan
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Nikhil Krishnan
  • Show Website
    The Minor Books Podcast

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