LitHouse podcast

In conversation with Tove Gravdal about Roosevelt’s right hand, history’s middlemen and the role of diplomacy today. From Epstein files to the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran: The events of the last few months have...

The Wergeland Lecture 2026 Andrey Kurkov  is one of Ukraine’s most central cultural and literary ambassadors. With titles such as  Death and the Penguin  and  Grey Bees , he has gained readers across...

Oksana Zabuzhko is one of the central writers of Ukraine’s post-Soviet generation. In 1996, she caused great controversy with her debut novel, Field Work in Ukrainian Sex, in which she challenged the current view won...

Few historians can match the position of British  Anthony Beevor.  With his 13 historical book son recent European history, he has become one of the most respected and read writers of history. Especially his...

After 43 years together, author  Siri Hustvedt  loses her husband, the author Paul Auster, to an aggressive form of cancer. Now there is only Siri left, in a time in which memories, smells and words from the...

No, reading novels is not a solution to our political miseries. For that organization, active resistance, and harder rhetoric is required. But we need stories. Author  Siri Hustvedt  said these words during a...

In A History of Women in 101 Objects , author Annabelle Hirsch shows us how the things around us aren’t just objects, but testimonies to a common cultural history and set of values. Hirsch shows how something as simple...

Albanian Lea Ypi has a talent for combining the personal and the political in history, exploring how we are all shaped by the societies and ideologies surrounding us. In her memoir Free. A Child and a Country at the End...

The history of the Vikings is usually told from the top down, through powerful characters such as chiefs, commanders and royalty, with raids, looting and war at the centre of the narrative. But what about all the...

Arinze Ifeakandu is a literary shooting star from Nigeria, with a characteristic, lyrical prose, who has been advocated by authors such as Damon Galgut og Colm Tóibín. God’s Children Are Little Broken Things from 2022...

«Everything» has become political – what you eat, what you wear, where you work, what you dream of. Political engagement permeates society, and movements like Occupy Wall Street, the Yellow Vests, and Fridays for Future...

South African Koleka Putuma is an author, a playwright, an editor, amentor, and she has become a cult figure in the activist poetry community. In a direct style that pulls no punches, she writes about homophobia and...

After the second world war, many of the biggest war criminals from Nazi Germany flee to South America in the hope of avoiding penalty. One of them is the SS officer Walter Rauff, who settles in Chile, and ends up with a...

Due to issues during the recording, the sound quality is somewhat lower than normal. In the recent memoir of Indian star author and activist  Arundhati Roy,  Mother Mary Comes to Me , we are given the raw and...

Poet and writer  Ocean Vuong  has in just a few years established himself as a leading literary voice of his generation. With his own life as a point of departure – born in Vietnam and grown up in a...