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PodcastPodcastBeing a radical optimist with Mohsin Hamid – books podcastHamid talks about his latest novel Exit West, in which a couple use doors to move between cities and realities – and we have a chat about speculative fiction
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A chronicle of the Daily Mail charts its rise from 60s doldrums to middle England’s paper of record
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While working on a novella inspired by the author of Moby-Dick, the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai found himself enmeshed in a web of connections stretching from Manhattan to Nantucket and from London to Berlin. Following in his footsteps, the photographer Ornan Rotem charts a creative journey encompassing Melville, Malcolm Lowry and Lebbeus Woods
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Hamid talks about his latest novel Exit West, in which a couple use doors to move between cities and realities – and we have a chat about speculative fiction
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American photographer Thomas R Schiff uses a panoramic camera to capture epic pictures of libraries across the US
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