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S1E51 How Disney Killed the Movies with Vicky Osterweil
A live book club chat about The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World (Haymarket Books, 2026) by Vicky Osterweil. Moderated by Sherry Zane. About the book: A…
S1E50 How African Novels Think with Ainehi Edoro
A book discussion on Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think by Ainehi Edoro. Moderated by Bhakti Shringarpure.About the book: Forests in fiction are often understood simply as settings,…
S1E49 Otoniya J. Okot Bitek: Against Forgetting
Poet and writer Otoniya J. Okot Bitek joins Bhakti Shringarpure to speak about her novel We, The Kindling. A beautifully assembled symphony of women’s voices breathes life into the cruel, two-decades…
S1E48 Hamza Koudri: On Family, Dance and Anti-colonial Revenge in 1930s Algeria
Writer Hamza Koudri joins host Bhakti Shringarpure from Algiers to talk about his debut novel Sand Roses. A historical novel about the semi-nomadic Ouled Nail group in Algeria, it focuses on the…
S1E47 What's Wrong With the New York Times' Best Books List?
Ainehi Edoro (Brittle Paper) and Bhakti Shringarpure (Radical Books Collective) discuss about the controversial New York Times' "100 Best Books of the Century list." A grandiose list claiming to…
S1E46 In Love and War: Collective Memory and the Self
In Love and War: Collective Memory and the Self is our fifth conversation in a series centering the Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press). Featuring Samina Najmi, Ubah…
S1E45 Poetry of Witness
Poetry of Witness is our fourth conversation in a series centering the Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press). Featuring Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Jehan Bseiso and Meg…
S1E44 Wounds of War: Narrating Health and Healing
Wounds of War: Narrating Health and Healing is the third conversation in a series centering the Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press). Featuring Zahra Moloo, Valerie…
S1E43 Gaslighting as Method and Ways to Resist It
Gaslighting as Method and Ways to Resist It is the second conversation in a series centering the Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press). Featuring Suzy Salamy, Suchitra…
S1E42 Unlearning War in the Classroom
Unlearning War in the Classroom is our first conversation in a series centering the Warscapes anthology Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (Daraja Press). Featuring Sherry Zane, Veruska Cantelli and…
S1E41 Mehfil 7 - Presenting Kashmir, Anew
Amrita Ghosh talks to Kashmiri scholar and academic Hafsa Kanjwal her new book Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (2023). The episode presents Kashmir and its long conflict in…
S1E40 Radical Publishing Futures 12: Hoopoe Fiction
In our 12th episode of Radical Publishing Futures, Nadine El-Hadi, senior acquisitions editor at Hoopoe Fiction joins Meg Arenberg from her office near Tahrir Square in Cairo. The discussion focuses…
S1E39 Writing Somalia: Nuruddin Farah
Novelist, essayist and master trilogist Nuruddin Farah is one of the most important contemporary authors working today. In a writing career that spans more than five decades, Farah has published…
S1E38 Léonora Miano: A Glossary for Black Identities
Cameroonian writer Léonora Miano joins guest host Greg Pierrot for the 10th episode of our Trailblazing African Feminists series. Miano was born in Doula, Cameroon and lived in France from 1991. She…
S1E37 Radical Publishing Futures 11: Feminist Press
Radical Publishing Futures returns with a conversation between Meg Arenberg and director of Feminist Press Margot Atwell. Margot offers some perspective on the pioneering role of the Feminist press…
S1E36 Color of Publishing 2, perspectives from the United States
In the second episode of Color of Publishing, we focus on publishing perspectives from and about the United States with Elizabeth Méndez Berry (One World Books) and Porscha Burke (Random House). Host…
S1E37 Color of Publishing 3, perspectives from the United Kingdom
In the third episode of Color of Publishing, we focus on publishing perspectives from the United Kingdom with two prolific editors and writers, Margaret Busby and Ellah P. Wakatama. Host Bhakti…
S1E35 Color of Publishing 1, debrief of the PEN America Report
On October 17th 2022, PEN America published a report titled “Reading Between the Lines: Race, Equity and Book Publishing” with the goal to expose and explore the fact that the publishing industry has…
S1E34 Mehfil 6 - Bhoot Prayt: Ghostly Encounters
A quirky episode on ghosts, hauntings and horror on this week’s Mehfil. Two women writers from India and Pakistan interrogate ghostly encounters and how to write about them. Host Amrita Ghosh…
S1E33 Mehfil 5 - Translating South Asia
This Mehfil explores the exciting world of South Asian translation especially the regional and vernacular literature that has lately been garnering international attention and winning prestigious…
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