Literature & Geopolitics Podcast

Explore this interview with Colombian novelist Santiago Gamboa as he talks movingly about his friendship with the Chilean master Roberto Bolaño, his years of exile in Europe, why intellectuals and writers in Latin America are close to political power, and how great novelists handle politics in their work. He also talks about a recent lunch he had with the Chinese Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, who wanted...

Discover why English novelist Anthony Powell deserves to be remembered as one of Britain’s great 20th-century novelists. He wrote the 12-volume masterpiece “A Dance to the Music of Time” that explores the lives of a group of British characters from the 1920s, through World War II, and deep into middle age. I talk with Harry Mount, who is the great nephew of Anthony Powell, and the editor of The Ol...

In the first episode of the Literature & Geopolitics podcast, Indian Ambassador and poet Abhay K. discusses diplomacy, poetry, Octavio Paz, Buddhist thought, Nalanda University, and why he chose to write about Africa. We also discuss the long and rich writer-diplomat tradition and why so many writers, including Dante, Chaucer, Pablo Neruda, Sergio Pitol, and many others, have been both writers...