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LitHouse podcast — 140 episodes
A Homecoming: Douglas Stuart and Janne Stigen Drangsholt
Dilemmas of Diplomacy. Geert Mak and Espen Barth Eide
Andrey Kurkov: Ukraine — Memories for the future
Feminism in Ukrainian: Oksana Zabuzhko and Lotta Elstad
The Tsar Dynasty and the Mad Monk: Anthony Beevor and Erika Fatland
A Love Story: Siri Hustvedt and Marte Spurkland
A Country Falling Apart: Siri Hustvedt and Karin Haugen
A Women's History. Annabelle Hirsch and Susanne Kaluza
A Secret Family History: Lea Ypi
Reading the Vikings. Eleanor Barraclough and Tore Skeie
My African Reading List: Arinze Ifeakandu
When Everything Is Political: Anton Jäger and Torbjørn Røe Isaksen
My African Reading List: Koleka Putuma
The Dictator and The Nazi. Philippe Sands and Karin Haugen
Becoming a writer: Arundhati Roy and Athena Farrokhzad
Strategies for Survival: Ocean Vuong and Priya Bains
My African Reading List: Soukaina Habiballah
Transformation and liberation: Édouard Louis and Erlend Loe
L'émigrante de classe: Annie Ernaux et Kjerstin Aukrust
The Break with the West: Omar El Akkad and Yohan Shanmugaratnam
The Storyteller of Sisterhood: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jessika Gedin
My African Reading List: Wole Talabi
The many lives of Amna: Youssef Rakha and Teresa Pepe
Monsters and Dystopias: New Arabic Literature
Liberation and Revolution: Slimani, Rakha and Habiballah
Diary of a Thief: Abdulrazak Gurnah og Nadifa Mohamed
Pride and Prejudice: Leïla Slimani and Kjerstin Aukrust
European epics: Jenny Erpenbeck and Mattis Øybø
The Empire Strikes Back: GauZ’ and Yohan Shanmugaratnam
The Winding River of Time. Elif Shafak and Marte Spurkland
My African Reding List: Jennifer Makumbi
The History of Panafricanism. Lecture by Hakim Adi
Abuse and survival: Neige Sinno and Hadia Tajik
A Brief History of African Dreaming. Lecture by Wole Talabi
A Network of Autocrats: Anne Applebaum
A lasting curse: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Bhakti Shringarpure
Hamlet on the West Bank: Isabella Hammad and Priya Bains
The Turbulence of History: Margaret Atwood and Jenny Erpenbeck
The Literary Prophet: Margaret Atwood
Afrotopia: The Future of Africa with Felwine Sarr and Andreas Liebe Delsett
On Display: Rachel Cusk and Jessika Gedin
The Unfree: Persecuted authors and censorship
My African Reading List: Igoni Barrett
A Tangled Family History: Simon Sebag Montefiore and Shazia Majid
Fighting mad to tell their story: Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid writing in the aftermath of Jane Eyre
My African Reading List: Leila Aboulela
Lucy's Many Lives: Elizabeth Strout and Kjersti Skomsvold
Just Keep Going. Personal lecture by Elizabeth Strout
Gender, Class and Loss: Glenn Bech, Andrew McMillan and Kristofer Folkhammar
History In the Footnotes: Leila Aboulela, Maaza Mengiste and Bhakti Shringarpure
Hidden in the Details: Adania Shibli and Maaza Mengiste
Censorship in East and West. Ian Buruma and Helge Jordheim
An Ode to Boyhood and Rage. Max Porter and Mattis Øybø
A Chorus of Voices from Vietnam. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai and Yukiko Duke
A Love without Bounds. Aleksandar Hemon and John Freeman
Traitor or war hero? Ian Buruma and Marte Michelet
All Animals Are Not Equal. NoViolet Bulawayo and Priya Bains
The Writer as Witness. Joyce Carol Oates and Karin Haugen
A Quiet Revolution. Abdulrazak Gurnah and Leila Aboulela
What Should Art Be? Lecture by Joyce Carol Oates
My African Reading List: Masande Ntshanga
My African Reading List: Maaza Mengiste
Forwards Toward the Past. Masande Ntshanga and Julia Wiedlocha
Brave New Worlds: Personal lecture by Masande Ntshanga
Did Hemingway Write Transgender Literature? Lecture by Torrey Peters
Beyond the binary. Torrey Peters and Carline Tromp. Introduction by Christine Jentoft
With Your Life in the Balance. Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nonhle Mbuthuma and Bergdis Joelsdottir
Who Owns the Land and the Sea? Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen, Nonhle Mbuthuma and Silje Ask Lundberg
The Superwoman Black Feminist. Tsitsi Dangarembga and Maaza Mengiste
My Brilliant Friend from Zimbabwe. About Tsitsi Dangarembga's trilogy
The Gospel of Lucy. Jamaica Kincaid and Ida Pallin Bostadløkken
When the World Collapses. Iryna Tsilyk and Åsne Seierstad
Red Lies. Lea Ypi and Marianne Marthinsen
The Universal Man Caroline Criado Perez and Linn Stalsberg
Shattered Innocence. Bret Easton Ellis and Emma Clare Gabrielsen
The Womanly Face of War. Maaza Mengiste and Sofi Oksanen
My African Reading List: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
My African Reading List: Nadifa Mohamed
Broken Promises. Damon Galgut and Nosizwe Lise Baqwa
Bless Our Blue Bodies. Warsan Shire and Athena Farrokhzad
Who is Killing Us? Literature and the unveiling of power
Friends of Dorothy: Gay Literature and Experience. Édouard Louis and Alan Hollinghurst in conversation
Watches that gain time: Edouard Louis and the politics of literature bookmark Lecture by Didier Eribon
Writing the Unheard-of: «The History of Violence» and the writer’s place in a violent world. Lecture by Maaza Mengiste
The Great Escape? Class, Culture and Friendship in «Change: Method». Lecture by Alan Hollinghurst
A Manifesto for the Working Class. Lecture by Édouard Louis
Claire-Louise Bennett on Checkout 19
Behind bars in Moscow. Kira Yarmysh and Jette F. Christensen
Free thought, a free country. Lecture by Andrey Kurkov
Deborah Levy on her "living" autobiographies
John Freeman on Philip Roth’s America
Njabulo Ndebele, Koleka Putuma and Elise Dybvig about South Afrika
Michael Pollan and Andreas Liebe Delsett
Gloria Gervitz in conversation with Athena Farrokhzad
Lecture and conversation with Nesrine Malik
Rachel Kushner and Finn Skårderud
Bad feminist: Roxane Gay and Eline Lund Fjæren
Igoni Barrett and Ane Farsethås on Blackass
Chris Kraus on Mary McCarthy
Siri Hustvedt and Linn Ullmann about Memories of the Future
Ibrahim Olabi about sexual violence in Syria
Édouard Louis and Geoffroy de Lagasnerie about bodies, violence and power
Sara Ahmed on complaint and abuses of power
Istanbul seen from below: Burhan Sönmez and Janneken Øverland
Kristen Roupenian and Eline Lund Fjæren on Cats and Women
Leïla Slimani and Maria Horvei about Lullaby
Ingmar Bergman the author
Voices from Syria: Wendy Pearlman and Andreas Delsett about the revolution and the war
Jenny Erpenbeck and Kaja Schjerven Mollerin on The end of days
Eduardo Halfon and Mattis Øybø in conversation
Valeria Luiselli and Maria Horvei about Faces in the crowd
Valeria Luiselli, Teju Cole and Nadifa Mohamed
A.S. Byatt and Toril Moi about The Children’s Book
Daniel Mendelsohn and Bernhard Ellefsen about An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
Ariel Levy and Bernhard Ellefsen on The Rules Do Not Apply
Paul Beatty and Dan Andersen on The Sellout
Ali Smith and Linn Ullmann about Autumn
Peter Frankopan on the Crusades as seen from Asia
Colson Whitehead and Karin Haugen on The Underground Railroad
Martin Puchner and Helge Jordheim about the literature shaping the world
Jennifer Egan and Finn Skårderud about Manhattan Beach
Rachel Cusk and Linn Ullmann about Outline and Transit
The Political Body
Arundhati Roy about her political and literary project
Chimamanda Adichie and Ane Farsethås about feminist tools
Aslı Erdoğan and Mustafa Can on today’s Turkey
Orhan Pamuk and Helge Jordheim
Paul Auster and Janneken Øverland
Arundhati Roy and Aslak Sira Myhre
Chris Kraus and Ane Farsethås
Jonathan Safran Foer and Bjørn Gabrielsen
Siri Hustvedt and Chris Kraus
Emma Cline and Mattis Øybø
After the Gaza war
Simon S. Montefiore and Erika Fatland
Jenny Offill and Bernhard Ellefsen
Hisham Matar and Helge Jordheim
César Aira and Kristina Solum
Selahattin Demirtaş giving the Saladin Lecture 2016
Édouard Louis on Toni Morrison