The Minor Books Podcast

Nikhil Krishnan

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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.

3 DAYS AGO

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). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1h 1m
OCT 14

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
SEP 14

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
AUG 14

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
JUL 15

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
JUN 16

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
MAY 15

All Soldiers

Raph and Nikhil welcome guest Minoo Dinshaw, author of Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman, to talk about Javier Marías's All Souls and Javier Cercas's Soldiers of Salamis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

50 min
APR 17

The Quest for Traces

Nikhil and Raph discuss two experimental biographies of minor writers: A. J. A. Symons's The Quest for Corvo and Iman Mersal's Traces of Inayat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

48 min
MAR 15

The Cruel Way to Trebizond

Raph and Nikhil are joined by Rey Conquer, author of Reading Colour: George, Rilke, Kandinsky, Lasker-Schüler, to talk about Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond and Ella Maillart's The Cruel Way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1h 1m
FEB 15

Abandonment and Trickery

Nikhil and Raph discuss Elena Ferrante's The Days of Abandonment and Domenico Starnone's Trick. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1h 3m
JAN 15

Ali, Nino and the Orientalist

Raph and Nikhil discuss Kurban Said's Ali and Nino and Tom Reiss's The Orientalist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

53 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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Indignity

Maid in Hungary

Death in Siena

Motherland du Lac

English Bachelors

Bloody Drinkard

All Soldiers

The Quest for Traces

The Cruel Way to Trebizond

Abandonment and Trickery

Ali, Nino and the Orientalist

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