Max Beerbohm, A Christmas Garland; Vikram Seth, The Golden Gate

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).

Christmas Gate

Robert Bringhurst, A Story As Sharp As a Knife; Ismail Kadare, The File on H

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).

Rhapsodes

Mark Doty, Heaven's Coast; Adam Mars-Jones, The Waters of Thirst

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).

Heaven's Thirst

Jane Gardam, Going Into a Dark House

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.

Plums and Poppies

Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

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.

Indus Valley Picnics

Adalbert Stifter, Motley Stones

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).

Cat Crystal

Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles

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.

Crocodile Shops

Tillie Olsen, Tell Me A Riddle

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.

Labour Writes

Sait Faik Abasıyanık, A Useless Man

Nikhil and Raph are joined by Peter Cherry of the British Institute at Ankara in the first episode of a new series about short story collections. In this episode, they discuss Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe's translation of selected stories by the Turkish writer Sait Faik: A Useless Man (2014).

Dolphins in the Bosphorus

Forgotten authors, books from the backlist and fiction in translation.

Raph Cormack, Nikhil Krishnan and guests discuss minor works of literature.

The Minor Books Podcast

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