America

Ruth Clarke and Annie McDermott Chaired by Polly Barton

Translation Slam
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 4:00pm Mon 27 Monday, 27 March 2023 See this event
Adam Gopnik

The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
Bodleian: Divinity School 10:00am Sat 1 Saturday, 1 April 2023 See this event
Leta McCollough Seletzky

The Kneeling Man: The Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 12:00pm Sat 1 Saturday, 1 April 2023 See this event
Catherine Lacey

Biography of X
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room 12:00pm Sat 1 Saturday, 1 April 2023 See this event
Torie Bosch

You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 2:00pm Sat 1 Saturday, 1 April 2023 See this event
Eric Collins

We Don’t Need Permission: How Black Business can Change our World
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room 2:00pm Sat 1 Saturday, 1 April 2023 See this event
John Hosler

Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room 4:00pm Sat 1 Saturday, 1 April 2023 See this event
Isabel Wilkerson

American Lecture. Caste: Exposing America’s Invisible Scaffolding
Sheldonian Theatre 4:00pm Sat 1 Saturday, 1 April 2023 See this event
Juan David Morgan

The Golden Horse and Between Honour and Sword
Worcester College: Provost’s Lodgings 4:00pm Sat 1 Saturday, 1 April 2023 See this event
Carlos Fonseca Interviewed by Boyd Tonkin

Colonel Lagrimas and Natural History: A Novel
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 6:00pm Sat 1 Saturday, 1 April 2023 See this event
Sarah Churchwell Interviewed by Nick Higham

The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the lies America Tells
Exeter College: Marquee 6:00pm Sat 1 Saturday, 1 April 2023 See this event
Giles Tremlett

España: A Brief History of Spain
Lincoln College: Oakeshott Room 10:00am Sun 2 Sunday, 2 April 2023 See this event
Antonio Munoz Molina Interviewed by Boyd Tonkin

To Walk Alone in the Crowd
Bodleian: Divinity School 12:00pm Sun 2 Sunday, 2 April 2023 See this event
Carla Guelfenbein Interviewed by Ian Goldin

My Writing Life
Bodleian: Divinity School 2:00pm Sun 2 Sunday, 2 April 2023 See this event

Festival information:

The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals. It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there.

I came away buzzing and reassured that we still have in this century a wide ranging community fascinated not just by famous authors (I’ve rarely seen so many concentrated in one place) but by challenging ideas and questions.

A stimulating and rewarding on-stage conversation; a lively informed and tolerant audience; privileged access to the great treasures of the Bodleian, and finally, wonderfully interesting dinner companions to help me conclude the best day I have enjoyed at any festival – anywhere.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

Every literary festival stays in an author’s mind for slightly individual reasons. I shall remember the Oxford festival for: - the size of the audience: at the top end of the range - their intelligence – this makes a huge difference for a speaker. In the Oxford audience I encountered many experts in the field my book covered and even one of the ambassadors I’d quoted - the beauty and the grace of the place itself – incomparable - the willingness of my hearers to buy books afterwards; I’ve never sold more.

The night in Oxford was the most beautiful event I have ever done. Not just the spectacular setting (of the Sheldonian), but an unforgettable evening.

Often as an author, I only occasionally get to meet the public who buy and read my books. The Oxford Literary Festival was a special opportunity for me and certainly one of the highlights of my career – it was an honour I will never forget.

I loved the whole atmosphere of the Oxford Literary Festival. From breakfast, alongside some of the attendees, who were talking books with each other a mile a minute, to the public event at The Sheldonian where everyone was lively and engaged – I felt I had arrived in a kind of literary heaven.