The Minor Books Podcast
Episodes
Christmas Gate
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Garla...
Rhapsodes
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Heaven's Thirst
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 A...
Plums and Poppies
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Indus Valley Picnics
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Cat Crystal
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Raph and Nikhil are joined again by Rey Conquer, author of the forthcoming How To Live Together (Fitzcarraldo), to discuss Adalbert Stifter's Motley S...
Crocodile Shops
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nikhil and Raph are joined by the writer and translator Joshua Billings to talk about Bruno Schulz's 1934 collection Sklepy Cynamonowe, translated fro...
Labour Writes
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Raph and Nikhil are joined by Lucy Jackson, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, to talk about ...
Dolphins in the Bosphorus
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Tunnel Vision
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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'En...
That Light
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Smel...
Indignity
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Maid in Hungary
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 La...
Death in Siena
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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) a...
Motherland du Lac
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nikhil and Raph are joined by Peter Cherry, author of Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film: Transcultural Identity and Migration in Britain and...
English Bachelors
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Raph and Nikhil are joined by Oliver Soden, author of Masquerade: The Lives of Noël Coward, to discuss two novels about spiritualist mediums: Muriel ...
Bloody Drinkard
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
All Soldiers
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Raph and Nikhil welcome guest Minoo Dinshaw, author of Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman, to talk about Javier Marías's All So...
The Quest for Traces
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. Hoste...
The Cruel Way to Trebizond
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Raph and Nikhil are joined by Rey Conquer, author of Reading Colour: George, Rilke, Kandinsky, Lasker-Schüler, to talk about Rose Macaulay's The Towe...
Abandonment and Trickery
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 infor...
Ali, Nino and the Orientalist
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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.