John Freeman on Philip Roth’s America
The new HBO mini series The Plot Against America is based on the Philip Roth novel (2004) by the same name. The novel tells the counterfactual story o...
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LitHouse is the English language podcast from the House of Literature (Litteraturhuset) in Oslo, presenting adapted versions of lectures and conversations featuring international writers and thinkers.
Njabulo Ndebele, Koleka Putuma and Elise Dybvig about South Afrika
Njabulo Ndebele grew up during the apartheid, and is one of South Africa's leading writers and intellectuals. He is the former vice principal at the U...
Michael Pollan and Andreas Liebe Delsett
Through titles such as Cooked, The Omnivore’s dilemma and In defense of Food, Michael Pollan, Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley’ and of the Pract...
Gloria Gervitz in conversation with Athena Farrokhzad
Mexican poet Gloria Gervitz has been writing the same poem for over forty years. The epic poem Migrations (Migraciones) is one of the greatest poetic ...
Lecture and conversation with Nesrine Malik
Is the assertion that freedom of expression is under pressure just a myth used to cover up more important political incompatibilities? In this event...
Rachel Kushner and Finn Skårderud
In Norway, Rachel Kushner is best known for her 2014 novel The Flamethrowers, set in New York’s art world. In Kushner’s new, critically acclaimed and ...
Bad feminist: Roxane Gay and Eline Lund Fjæren
What if your view of the world is based on the experiences of black women, or those of working class, queer or transgendered women, and by that breaks...
Igoni Barrett and Ane Farsethås on Blackass
What happens when blackness and whiteness are turned inside out? The Metamorphosis by Kafka is an obvious literary model when the Nigerian writer Igon...
Chris Kraus on Mary McCarthy
The American writer Chris Kraus has previously visited The House of Literature to talk about I Love Dick, a semi-autobiographic novel first published ...
Siri Hustvedt and Linn Ullmann about Memories of the Future
In Siri Hustvedt’s new novel Memories of the Future, the grown up and well established writer S.H. enters into dialogue with twenty-year-old S.H., wit...