Our curator speaks to the celebrated author of When We Cease to Understand the World in a discussion which spans the book’s restless genre hybridity, the tensions between truth and fiction, myth and science,  and the electrifying endeavour of attempting to write beyond the bounds of human rationality.

Writing Toward the Unknowable: Leigh Wilson in conversation with Benjamín Labatut

For a special episode recorded at the Bath Festival, we discuss Angela Carter's astonishing collection The Bloody Chamber (1979), much of which was conceived while Carter lived in Bath. Andy and John are joined by novelist Rachel Heath, Boundless editor and critic Arifa Akbar, and journalist and artistic director of words and literature at the Bath Festival, Alex Clark. This episode also includes the panel's thoughts on Philip Roth, whose death had been announced that morning.

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11'25 - The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

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The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

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