# Laila Lalami

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161: You Pay Your Money, You Send Your Books

John, Alison and Liz read the Clarke Award shortlist. An uncorrected transcript of this episode is available here. Please email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk, join our Facebook group, and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Bluesky or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social …

When Fiction Sounds the Alarm | All About Women 2026

Laila Lalami’s eerily prophetic new book imagines a world where AI can punish us for “potential crimes”. Known for her razor-sharp explorations of the immigrant experience, Lalami once again proves the power of fiction to illuminate and anticipate the world around us. From her celebrated essay col…

WWBUT 116 – Have These People Not Read Animorphs?

Someday we will catch up to time and not be doing these super-sized WWBUTs, but that day is not today! So: here’s what we’ve been up to. What Missy’s Been Up To: Watching The Drama Reading Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami …

E85 - Summer Reading List 2026: Books That Challenge How We See the World, Teaching, and Ourselves

On our second ✨annual✨ summer reading list, we explore a curated selection of memoirs, nonfiction, and fiction that have shaped how we think about identity, belonging, error, and what it means to be human. This year's picks lean heavily into nonfiction and memoir, reflecting a shared desire to unde…

Get Lit: Laila Lalami's 'The Dream Hotel,' and Imal Gnawa Performs

[REBROADCAST FROM May 6, 2025] Author Laila Lalami discusses her new book, The Dream Hotel, which follows a woman detained after an AI algorithm analyzes her dreams and determines she's at risk of harming her husband. The novel was the April 2025 selection for our Get Lit with All Of It book club. …

Exploring Without Borders

If you would like to suggest a topic that you want us to explore, please send us an email on waystationsrkwm@gmail.com Today we will be discussing exploring without borders. The concept of exploring the earth without borders feels quite disjointed, as we live in an era of passports, biometric chec…

Technology, AI, and Where it's All Going: Introducing Season 8

In this episode of The Novel Tea, Shruti and Neha introduce Season 8: Technology. We talk about the way technology has become integrated into our lives, share thoughts on the AI crisis, and share some books we've enjoyed that have explored technology and its implications. And, of course, we share t…

On Ali Smith's Spring, Mark Haddon's The Porpoise, Laila Lalami's The Other Americans & how digital is disrupting reading

Kate Evans is joined by broadcaster Sarah Kanowski, writer Justine Hyde and Catherine Keenan from The Story Factory to discuss new fiction from Ali Smith, Mark Haddon and Laila Lalami; and Julianne Schultz from the Griffith Review reflects on reading for 'digital natives'.