John Mitchinson
Staff Writer at Byline Times
Co-Host at Backlisted
Co-host of @BacklistedPod. Publisher of Boundless/@unbounders. Quondam writer for @qikipedia. Keeper of #pigs & #bees. He/him.
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2 weeks ago |
backlisted.fm | John Mitchinson
Kaliane Bradley, author of The Ministry of Time, joins John and Andy for a tour of Monkey King: Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, the sixteenth-century fable widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written, newly translated by Julia Lovell.
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1 month ago |
backlisted.fm | John Mitchinson
“A masterpiece I don’t fully understand—and don’t need to.” This week’s book is The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro, a bold, baffling, and darkly funny novel that has confounded and enchanted readers since its publication in 1995. Joining us to explore it is Chris Chibnall, award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and now novelist, best known for Broadchurch and Doctor Who, and author of the new detective novel Death at the White Hart.
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1 month ago |
backlisted.fm | John Mitchinson
Elif Shafak and Lyndsey Stonebridge join John and Andy for a discussion of the life and work of Hannah Arendt, the historian and philosopher whose books include The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianismand Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. This being Backlisted, we approach Arendt's formidable oeuvre and truly extraordinary biography via an intriguing route: her poetry.
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1 month ago |
bylinetimes.com | John Mitchinson
This article was originally published in the April 2025 print edition of Byline TimesTo stay ahead of the curve, subscribe nowWe’ve been poisoning ourselves with lead for at least the last 2,000 years. Lead is easy to extract from its various ores, easy to work, melts at a low temperature (which makes it perfect for solder), and doesn’t corrode in air or water.
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2 months ago |
backlisted.fm | John Mitchinson
Sybille Bedford's A Compass Error(1968) is a classic coming-of-age novel, a love story, a family saga and a study in psychological suspense rolled into one. Joining us to discuss it are the novelist Francesca Reece and Krista Cowman, Professor of History at the University of Leicester. The late Hilary Mantel described A Compass Error, Bedford's third novel, as 'a powerful and merciless book ... which visits on its heroine a series of humiliations that cut to the quick'.
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On today's @BacklistedPod we discuss a book that has the merciless clarity of May sunshine - Lauren Elkin joins @i_am_mill_i_am, @birchos and me to discuss her sparkling new translation of Les Belle Images (The Image of Her) by Simone de Beauvoir. https://t.co/0PwylTfsic
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