Burning Books Podcast
1) The Binding of Isaac by Omri Boehm
A reinterpretation of Genesis 22, Abraham nearly sacrificing his son Isaac, that blew my mind.
2) Netanya by Dror Burstein
Is it a novel? Memoirs? A book of geology? Anthropology? Marine Biology? Yes yes yes.
3) Human Parts by Orly Castel-Bloom
Permanent winter in a desert climate, a dentist with no face, a woman finding material wealth in the midst of poverty, a governmental minister whose full time job is to attend funerals – all this and ...Show More
4) Almost Dead by Assaf Gavron
The man who keeps surviving terrorist attacks and the person who is determined to finish him off once and for all square off in this chapter by chapter account of what goes wrong when you add the huma...Show More
5) Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua
A heavyweight tale in featherweight prose. A beautiful story about a boy who slips away into adulthood. A ghost story about a person who’s still alive.
6) Three Deaths – Josip Novakovich
A sliver of a book unfolds as a triptych, brilliant and beautiful, the subtlest of writing making the greatest of waves. Featuring Walter Benjamin.
7) Some Do Not . . . – Ford Madox Ford
Somebody please hand me a glossary of terrible non-puns from the 1910s, although no post-rationalisation is going to save this dip into the addled mind of a bureaucratic toff. By the author of some ve...Show More
8) Regeneration – Pat Barker
The Beginning of Something New
9) The German Mujahid – Boualem Sansal
A history of one aspect of the Nazi genocide is brought to present day Parisian suburbs via a massacre in an Algerian village. Extremism, integration, ghettos, religion – all the elements are refashio...Show More
10) Hadrian's Memoirs – Marguerite Yourcenar
At the end of his days, sitting in his villa outside Rome, the Emperor Hadrian writes a long letter to his adopted son, and next great leader of Rome, Marcus Aurelius. In Hadrian’s world, thoughts due...Show More