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
Recently, Katherine interviewed Sarah Moss about her incredible new memoir, My Good Bright Wolf, an account of growing up as... more
What’s to be done with the lost, the dead, but write them into being?’So writes Hilary Mantel in her extraordinary... more
It was National Poetry Day in the UK earlier this month and Katherine talked to Kate Fox about her new... more
September - when we’re almost as likely to be trying to reform ourselves as in January - is the perfect... more
This month, Katherine spoke to Lucy Jones about Matrescence, her book about the profound changes wrought by pregnancy and birth. Combining... more
Katherine was excited to speak to Daniel Tammet about his latest book, Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum. Katherine has... more
Join Katherine as she talks with Tom Newlands about his debut novel, Only Here, Only Now. Katherine talks with Tom about... more
Join me for a recent conversation with comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer Samantha Irby. Recorded as part of my... more
Join my conversation with Catherine Coldstream as we relax into a questing, rambling chat about the deep pull that many... more
At a superficial level, Soil is a gardening memoir, full of gorgeous descriptions of plants and getting your hands in... more
In the past few years, resistance has been a live issue for many of us, whether we’re wondering for the... more
The wolf carries an almost unbearable amount of symbolism in western culture, encapsulating the predatory, the carnal, the supernatural and... more
I stumbled across Dacher Keltner’s work when I was first researching Enchantment, and now - for the final episode in... more
Marjolijn van Heemstra believes that we can change the world by gazing into the night sky. Her book, In Light... more
How can we return to a richer, more complex understanding of national identity and personal ethics - one that can... more
In this week’s episode of How We Live Now, Katherine speaks to author and public intellectual Báyò Akómoláfé. We consider... more
Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s writing rings with a sense of connection between this world and the otherworld, and nowhere is it... more
When I spoke to Morgan Harper Nichols, she was taking a break from assignment-writing for the MFA in Interdisciplinary Media... more
Pico Iyer’s latest book, The Half Known Life, looks at the ways in which we seek paradise on earth, sometimes... more
We're in between seasons of How We Live Now and Katherine is in the midst of talking about her new... more
How can we return to a richer, more complex understanding of national identity and personal ethics - one that can only come... more