Xiaolu Guo & Philip Hoare: Call Me Ishmaelle
Podcast: London Review Bookshop PodcastPublished On: Wed Oct 29 2025
Description: Gender, race and identity collide on the open seas in Xiaolu Guo’s Call Me Ishmaelle (Chatto), a powerful, feminist reimagining of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. She was in conversation with Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan: Or the Whale, who has described Guo’s latest novel as being ‘as animal and visceral and shape-shifting and subversive as the broad back of the mythic whale themselves.’
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