In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Caroline Issa is joined in conversation by Joey Zwillinger, co-founder of the much buzzed about footwear startup Allbirds. After working in biotech with a focus on renewable materials, Zwillinger teamed up with designer Tim Brown to bring his expertise to a sneaker industry bloated by wasteful productio…

In this episode of the TANK podcast, Natasha Stallard speaks to American author and critic Lynne Tillman about her latest novel, Men and Apparitions, which was selected by Barbara Epler for TANK's 2018 Summer Reader earlier this year. Tillman is renowned for her technical virtuosity and cutting insight across works of fiction, non-fiction and cultu…

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Jan-Peter Westad speaks with the novelist Patrick deWitt about his latest book French Exit, which was published by Bloomsbury in September. The novel follows the glamorous widow Frances Price, her passive adult son Malcolm and their cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late hu…

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Jan-Peter Westad speaks with the writer Shaun Prescott about his debut novel The Town. Published by Faber, the novel follows an unnamed narrator in his effort to research the small towns in the New South Wales region of Australia. The unnamed town he settles in is defined by fast food outlets and petrol…

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Jan-Peter Westad speaks to the poet and academic Mark Ford about his most recent collection Enter, Fleeing, which was published by Faber in May 2018. Ford discusses his autobiographical turn, growing up across the world, being drugged on a train to Madrid, meeting Allen Ginsberg and more. The collection…

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Ismail Einashe speaks to the artist Lubaina Himid about the aftermath of winning the Turner Prize, the importance of addressing Europe’s colonial history and the representation of people of colour in art and beyond. Born in 1954 in Zanzibar, Himid was raised in Britain where she became a pioneer of the …

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Natasha Stallard speaks to the artist and writer James Bridle about his new book, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future. Published by Verso, the book tackles how contemporary technology has led us into a world of ever-increasing incomprehension. From climate change to the nightmarish world …

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Ismail Einashe talks to the journalist and editor of New Humanist, Daniel Trilling. Trilling writes on migration, borders and nationalism in Europe and his reporting has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the New Statesman and the London Review of Books. His latest book, Light in the Distance…

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, Aida Amoako talks with the American novelist Jesmyn Ward. Among her many accolades, Ward was awarded a Macarthur Genius Grant and is the first female author to win two National Book awards for fiction, for Salvage the Bones (2011) and her most recent novel Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017). The subject of thi…

In this episode of the Tank Magazine podcast, Adam Bychawski talks with two of the leading writers engaged on the UK’s serious housing issues, Anna Minton and John Boughton. A writer, journalist and reader of architecture at the University of East London, Anna Minton’s most recent book, Big Capital: Who Is London For? (2017) is a piercing survey of…

In this episode of the TANK magazine podcast, listeners will hear Madeline Miller reading from her new novel Circe and answering some questions about the book. Miller’s first novel The Songs of Achilles, won the 2012 Orange Prize, and Circe offers another vivid and fresh take on Greek mythology, this time centred on the powerful sorceress most ofte…

In this episode of the Tank Magazine podcast, Nadifa Mohamed reads her flash fiction piece, The Maid. Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa, Somalia in 1981 and studied History and Politics at St. Hilda's College, Oxford University. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, was published in 2009. It won the Betty Trask Prize, was long-listed for the Orange P…

In this episode of the Tank Magazine podcast, Tank’s editor Thomas Roueché talks with Anton Vidokle about the many meanings of cosmism. Vidokle is an artist, filmmaker and founder of artistic platform and archive, e-flux. The final part of his most recent film series Immortality for All: A Film Trilogy on Russian Cosmism, was released in 2017. Part…

In this episode of the Tank Magazine Podcast, 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. On her journe…

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. Her latest book, The Explorer, is shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Children's Book Award and she is currently working on her first novel fo…

In this episode of the Tank Magazine Podcast, the writer, environmentalist and political activist George Monbiot discusses the ideas in his new book Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis. Never one to think small when the problems are anything but, the book sets out an inspiring vision for a new left politics, one built on cooper…

In this episode of the Tank Magazine podcast, Adam Bychawski talks with the rare book dealer and Tank collaborator Carl Williams about eccentric collectors, the earliest experiments with LSD and takes us through some of his wide-ranging ephemera. From trip diaries to wanted posters, Carl Williams has seen (and dealt) it all.…

In this episode of the Tank Magazine podcast, Jan-Peter Westad talks with the writer Charlie Fox. His debut book This Young Monster was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions this year and has been praised by the likes of John Waters and Chris Kraus. From Stranger Things and David Lynch to Leigh Bowery and Arthur Rimbaud, the essay collection takes a p…

This episode is a recording of Liberalism and Ignorance, a talk hosted in collaboration with the MIT Press, between the academic Daniel DeNicola and the journalist Edmund Fawcett. DeNicola is the chair of philosophy at Gettysburg College and the author of Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don't Know, published by MIT Press. …

In this episode, Justin E.H. Smith reads his essay Party animal: an education in individual expression and the importance of solidarity. Smith is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris – Denis Diderot. He is also the author of The Philosopher: A History in Six Types and Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: …

Fiona Leahy throws parties for a living. Since 2005, she has produced parties including Dita Von Teese’s wedding to Marilyn Manson, store openings, intimate dinners and lavish events for Louis Vuitton, Emilia Wickstead, Christian Louboutin and Middle Eastern royalty. Tank's Tamsin Blanchard asks Leahy about the secret to a great party.…

The Party Issue: Adam Bychawski talks with the academic and author Tim Lawrence about New York nightlife during the early 1980s.Por Tank Magazine

The Book Issue: The artist Sam Contis discusses her photo book Deep Springs (MACK), which centres on the remote all-male liberal arts college based in the Sierra Nevada, with Tate assistant curator Shoair Mavlian.Por Tank Magazine

The Book Issue: Tamsin Blanchard goes inside the world of Joseph’s creative director, Louise Trotter.Por Tank Magazine

The Book Issue: The 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.Por Tank Magazine

The Book Issue: The publisher Michael Mack of MACK discusses his pick of the most important books of the year, featuring Sophie Calle, Allan Sekula and Richard Mosse, among many others.Por Tank Magazine

The Gossip Issue: The writer Edward Siddons discusses how gossip might open up the ways we understand LGBTQ+ history.Por Tank Magazine

The Gossip Issue: Tamsin Blanchard investigates the reinvention of the world's most iconic textile, denim. Featuring Faustine Steinmetz, Kevin Youn, Mohsin Sajid and Han Ates.Por Tank Magazine

The Gossip Issue: The writer Jesse Barron discusses secrecy, sexuality and the possibility of living a double life in the digital realm.Por Tank Magazine

The Gossip Issue: Ashish Gupta, the London-based fashion designer, talks to Tamsin Blanchard about his spring/summer 2017, Brexit and cultural appropriation.Por Tank Magazine

The Gossip Issue: The academic Clare Birchall interrogates the power of gossip to disrupt traditional systems of knowledge.Por Tank Magazine

The Travel Issue: The Land of Legends theme park opened this summer, just as Turkey's tourism economy collapsed. Natasha Stallard asks: Who's watching the dolphin show now?Por Tank Magazine

The Travel Issue: Phoebe English, the award-winning fashion designer, talks to Tamsin Blanchard about her Deptford studio, choosing a career in fashion and designing her spring/summer 2017 collection around the Brexit result.Por Tank Magazine

The Travel Issue: On the luxurious shores of Lake Garda, Sam Thompsons considers Salò, its grandiose monuments and its occluded history.Por Tank Magazine

The Travel Issue: Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, talks to Lili Owen Rowlands about her memoir Negroland (Granta) and the changing dynamics of race in the United States.Por Tank Magazine

The Travel Issue: The novelist Tod Wodicka spends 168 hours in the exciting, beautiful and bottomlessly strange northern Michigan.Por Tank Magazine

The Food Issue: Tamsin Blanchard argues how fashion is in the midst of a seismic gnerational shift.Por Tank Magazine

The Food Issue: What became of the dream of a meal in a pill? Bee Wilson traces the strange legacies of the meal replacement.Por Tank Magazine

The Food Issue: Carol Lim and Humberto Leon of Opening Ceremony and Kenzo dine with with Eva Chen, the Instagram extraordinaire.Por Tank Magazine

The Food Issue: A.S. Hamrah dissects the changing role of the restaurant in contemporary American society.Por Tank Magazine

The Food Issue: Martha Henriques goes in search of umami or the mysterious, fifth fundamental taste.Por Tank Magazine

The Reader Issue: A discussion on book editing and independent publishing. Part of the Tank and Parker Pens Better Thinking Book Talks.Por Tank Magazine

The Reader Issue: A discussion on writing novels, translation and global literature. Part of the Tank and Parker Pens Better Thinking Book Talks.Por Tank Magazine

For full information and tracklist, and to see the custom visuals by Stine Deja go to http://tankmagazine.com/live/tank/thug-entrancerPor Tank Magazine