Kapka Kassabova on journeying to Europe’s edges

Adam Bychawski speaks to the author and poet Kapka Kassabova about her book Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe (2017). Combining memoir and myth, history and travel, the book is an exploration of the borderlands between Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria, where Kassabova spent her childhood.

“Russia in the Late Summer” by Katherine Rundell

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Katherine Rundell reads her piece “Russia in the Late Summer”. Katherine Rundell is a fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford and a children's author.

“Party Animal” by Justin E.H. Smith

Justin E.H. Smith is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot. Here, he reads his essay “Party Animal”: an education in individual expression and the importance of solidarity.

In conversation with Charlie Fox

Jan-Peter Westad talks with the writer Charlie Fox about his collection of essays, This Young Monster which celebrates artists who find beauty within the dark and the disturbing.

In conversation with Tim Lawrence

Tim Lawrence is professor of cultural studies at the University of East London, an organiser of the All Our Friends loft party, and the author of several books about New York nightlife during the early 1980s. Here, he discusses what made this short period in New York’s subcultural history so remarkable. 

“Uniform Attitude” by Tamsin Blanchard

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Tamsin Blanchard goes inside the world of Joseph’s creative director, Louise Trotter.

In conversation with Hellen van Meene

Photographer Hellen van Meene discusses the thinking behind her Saint Uncumber-themed work and explains why the Dutch tradition is so important to her practice.

“168 Hours in Northern Michigan” by Tod Wodicka

Novelist Tod Wodicka spends 168 hours in the exciting, beautiful and bottomlessly strange northern Michigan.

In conversation with Margo Jefferson

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Margo Jefferson. Jefferson, now a professor of writing at Columbia University, spent her childhood among Chicago’s black elite. Negroland, her second book, recounts the context, pressures, expectations and privileges of the black bourgeoisie.

“Glass Against Steel” by Sam Thompson

Writer and activist Sam Thompson considers Salò, its grandiose monuments and its occluded history.