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How We Live Now with Katherine May
How We Live Now with Katherine May
Katherine May

How should we live in this world when so much is changed? Katherine May, author of Wintering and the Electricity of Every Living Thing, asks... more

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Episodes

Sarah Moss on memory and meaning-making

Recently, Katherine interviewed Sarah Moss about her incredible new memoir, My Good Bright Wolf, an account of growing up as... more

16 Nov 2024 · 46 minutes
Exploring Hilary Mantel's memoir with Jillian Hess

What’s to be done with the lost, the dead, but write them into being?’So writes Hilary Mantel in her extraordinary... more

01 Nov 2024 · 1 hour,
Kate Fox on the potential and power of poetry

It was National Poetry Day in the UK earlier this month and Katherine talked to Kate Fox about her new... more

16 Oct 2024 · 59 minutes
Oliver Burkeman on mortality, acceptance and imperfectionism

September - when we’re almost as likely to be trying to reform ourselves as in January - is the perfect... more

27 Sep 2024 · 1 hour,
Lucy Jones on matrescence, maternal myths and transformation

This month, Katherine spoke to Lucy Jones about Matrescence, her book about the profound changes wrought by pregnancy and birth. Combining... more

29 Aug 2024 · 53 minutes
Daniel Tammet on real autistic lives

Katherine was excited to speak to Daniel Tammet about his latest book, Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum. Katherine has... more

25 Jul 2024 · 55 minutes
Tom Newlands on writing neurodivergence with a light touch

Join Katherine as she talks with Tom Newlands about his debut novel, Only Here, Only Now. Katherine talks with Tom about... more

04 Jul 2024 · 47 minutes
Samantha Irby on being a person

Join me for a recent conversation with comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer Samantha Irby. Recorded as part of my... more

20 Jun 2024 · 57 minutes
Catherine Coldstream on life as a nun

Join my conversation with Catherine Coldstream as we relax into a questing, rambling chat about the deep pull that many... more

24 May 2024 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Camille T. Dungy on unearthing histories

At a superficial level, Soil is a gardening memoir, full of gorgeous descriptions of plants and getting your hands in... more

15 Dec 2023 · 50 minutes
Kaitlin Curtice on resisting with integrity

In the past few years, resistance has been a live issue for many of us, whether we’re wondering for the... more

17 Nov 2023 · 59 minutes
Erica Berry on the meaning of wolves

The wolf carries an almost unbearable amount of symbolism in western culture, encapsulating the predatory, the carnal, the supernatural and... more

20 Oct 2023 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Dacher Keltner on awe, humility and purpose

I stumbled across Dacher Keltner’s work when I was first researching Enchantment, and now - for the final episode in... more

03 Aug 2023 · 49 minutes
Marjolijn van Heemstra on the overview effect

Marjolijn van Heemstra believes that we can change the world by gazing into the night sky. Her book, In Light... more

20 Jul 2023 · 48 minutes
Amy Jeffs on ancient stories and new understandings

How can we return to a richer, more complex understanding of national identity and personal ethics - one that can... more

06 Jul 2023 · 55 minutes
Báyò Akómoláfé on fugitive ideas

In this week’s episode of How We Live Now, Katherine speaks to author and public intellectual Báyò Akómoláfé. We consider... more

30 Jun 2023 · 50 minutes
Kerri ní Dochartaigh on the mystical everyday

Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s writing rings with a sense of connection between this world and the otherworld, and nowhere is it... more

08 Jun 2023 · 51 minutes
Morgan Harper Nichols on art and perception

When I spoke to Morgan Harper Nichols, she was taking a break from assignment-writing for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Media... more

25 May 2023 · 1 hour,
Pico Iyer on the wisdom of travellers

Pico Iyer’s latest book, The Half Known Life, looks at the ways in which we seek paradise on earth, sometimes... more

11 May 2023 · 56 minutes
Bonus episode: Katherine May on burnout and why we all need a little more wonder in our lives

We're in between seasons of How We Live Now and Katherine is in the midst of talking about her new... more

15 Mar 2023 · 46 minutes
How We Live Now with Katherine May
Bonus episode: Katherine May on burnout and why we all need a little more wonder in our lives
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We're in between seasons of How We Live Now and Katherine is in the midst of talking about her new book Enchantment... more