The Minor Books Podcast

By Nikhil Krishnan

Raph Cormack, Nikhil Krishnan and guests discuss minor works of literature.

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August 31, 2025 Heaven's Thirst
Nikhil and Raph are joined by Alistair Henfrey, Head of English at Winchester College, to talk about Mark Doty's Heaven's Coast: A Memoir (1996) and Adam Mars-Jones's The Waters of Thirst (1993).
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July 31, 2025 Plums and Poppies
Raph and Nikhil are joined, for the last episode in our series on short story collections, by Henry Oliver, author among other things of the Substack newsletter The Common Reader, to discuss Jane Gardam's 1994 collection Going Into a Dark Room.
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58min
July 13, 2025 Indus Valley Picnics
Nikhil and Raph are joined by Supriya Nair, one of the hosts of The Lit Pickers Podcast, to discuss the Pakistani-American writer Daniyal Mueenuddin's 2009 collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.
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June 01, 2025 Cat Crystal
Raph and Nikhil are joined again by Rey Conquer, author of the forthcoming How To Live Together (Fitzcarraldo), to discuss Adalbert Stifter's Motley Stones (1853, tr. Isabel Fargo Cole, NYRB Classics).
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April 16, 2025 Crocodile Shops
Nikhil and Raph are joined by the writer and translator Joshua Billings to talk about Bruno Schulz's 1934 collection Sklepy Cynamonowe, translated from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska in 1963.
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54min
March 15, 2025 Labour Writes
Raph and Nikhil are joined by Lucy Jackson, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, to talk about the American writer Tillie Olsen's 1961 collection of short stories, Tell Me a Riddle.
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February 15, 2025 Dolphins in the Bosphorus
Nikhil and Raph are joined by Peter Cherry of the British Institute at Ankara in the first episode of a new series about short story collections. In this episode, they discuss Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe's translation of selected stories by the Turkish writer Sait Faik: A Useless Man (2014).
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January 15, 2025 Tunnel Vision
Raph and Nikhil talk to Peter Huhne about Ernesto Sabato's El Túnel (1948, tr. Margaret Sayers Peden) and Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac's D'Entre Les Morts (1954, tr. Geoffrey Sainsbury).
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December 15, 2024 That Light
Nikhil and Raph talk to Henry Eliot about Yūko Tsushima's Territory of Light (1977/78, tr. Geraldine Harcourt, 2018) and Sonallah Ibrahim's That Smell (1966, tr. Robyn Cresswell, 2013).
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November 17, 2024 Indignity
Raph and Nikhil talk to novelist and critic Anjum Hasan about Anita Desai's In Custody (1984) and Dag Solstad's Shyness and Dignity (1994, tr. Sverre Lyngstad 2006).

Errata: We give the wrong date of publication for both books at points during the episode. In Custody was published not in 1988 but 1984; Shyness and Dignity was published not in 1999 but 1994. At 5:48, when Anjum Hasan talks about the Urdu language’s relationship with the Indian state, the sentence should have been ‘Urdu is not patronised to the extent that Hindi is’.

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The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.