The Wandering Book Collector

"War Child" Emmanuel Jal on a special edition of The Wandering Book Collector, including the title track of his new album Shangah

Kathryn D. Sullivan on our oceans; on an adventurous childhood; on maps and plotting journeys; on moving in microgravity; on time travel; on a ticket to Mars; on Moscow during the Cold War; and on losing sight of Planet Earth, literally — with TWBC

Preti Taneja on finding the words; on collective grief; on Partition; on the question of home and how prison is never home; on the inevitability of political writing; on anguish; on the necessary fiction that is trust — with TWBC

Rebecca Mead on the to-ing and fro-ing between New York and London; on being mis/understood; on migration in your 20s v your 50s; on Trieste; on eavesdropping on buses — with TWBC

Horatio Clare on madness, mania and healing; on migrating swallows; on keeping a diary; on being the other in other-ing; on "the love of many things" and Van Gogh — with TWBC

Brigid Delaney on restlessness, on the mania around wellness, on Seneca and stoicism, on Australia's tough lockdown and where she is choosing to go first (Bali), not forgetting cockatoos — with TWBC

Geoffrey Kent on a special SAFARI edition of The Wandering Book Collector

Sara Wheeler on Russia and its writers of the Golden Age: Pushkin, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, and on language, translation, etymology and bathmats across nine time zones -- with TWBC

Kapka Kassabova on the Balkans, on growing up behind the Iron Curtain, on the inheritance of pain, on writing by water, on alchemistry, on healing -- with TWBC

Maaza Mengiste on Ethiopia, on women in war, on pulling the trigger, on photography, on writing in Rome, on standing before monuments to fascism, on Project 3541 -- with TWBC