Mar 7, 2025
A special episode: Anna is joined by author and U-Go founder John Wood.
We discuss our reactions to the 2025 Women’s Prize Longlist.
Our book of the week is PATRIOT by Alexei Navalny translated by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel. This is Navalny’s autobiography detailing his rise to be a Russian opposition leader, but is also a prison diary following his arrest in January 2021. He died in prison in February 2024. A New York Times bestseller, best book of the year (New Yorker, Atlantic, NPR) and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. We highly recommend it - essential reading.
Books mentioned
SO BIG by Edna Ferber
DAYS IN THE CAUCASUS by Banine translated by Anne Thompson-Ahmadova
RED NOTICE by Bill Browder
THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE by Masha Gessen
SECOND-HAND TIME by Svetlana Alexievich translated by Bela Shayevich
THE TRIAL OF VALDIMIR PUTIN by Geoffrey Robertson KC
TRAVELS IN SIBERIA by Ian Frazier
DISAPPEARING EARTH by Julia Phillips
A SWIM IN A POND IN THE RAIN by George Saunders
Films
Coming up:
WHITE NIGHTS and THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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