今年的爱丁堡国际图书节改为网上图书节，从8月15日至31日，共有140多个节目。今年图书节的口号是Keep the Conversation Going。以下是我对图书节第二个星期的节目选择，时间均为英国夏令时。
Sarah Moss: Unhappy Campers
Sun 23 Aug 11:30 – 12:30
Gavin Francis & Kapka Kassabova: The Lie of the Land
Sun 23 Aug 14:30 – 15:30
Nadine Aisha Jassat & Tsitsi Dangarembga: Outriders Africa Following in their Footsteps
Mon 24 Aug 11:30 – 12:30
Ross Benjamin & Daniel Kehlmann: When History Prefigures Our Own Times
Mon 24 Aug 13:00 – 14:00
李翊云 Yiyun Li: One-way Correspondence
Mon 24 Aug 14:30 – 15:30
Kathleen Jamie, Chitra Ramaswamy & Amanda Thomson: Antlers of Water
Mon 24 Aug 16:00 – 17:00
Billy-Ray Belcourt & Mary Jean Chan: Words Will Set You Free
Mon 24 Aug 17:30 – 18:30
Anne Applebaum: Democracy Under Siege
Mon 24 Aug 19:00 – 20:00
David Eagleman: A Mind-Blowing Future
Mon 24 Aug 20:30 – 21:30
Michel Faber: The ‘Evil Is In The ‘Etail
Tue 25 Aug 11:30 – 12:30
Richard Holloway: The Human Need for Stories
Tue 25 Aug 16:00 – 17:00
Olivia Laing: Art is Political
Tue 25 Aug 19:00 – 20:00
Helen Macdonald: The Natural World Beyond ‘H is For Hawk’
Tue 25 Aug 20:30 – 21:30
Adania Shibli: When the Present is Haunted by the Past
Wed 26 Aug 13:00 – 14:00
Wayétu Moore: Setting Liberia’s History Free
Wed 26 Aug 16:00 – 17:00
International Booker Prize: First Interview with the 2020 Winner
Wed 26 Aug 19:00 – 20:00
Mieko Kawakami: Three Daughters of Osaka
Thu 27 Aug 13:00 – 14:00
Samantha Power with Allan Little: What One Person Can Do
Thu 27 Aug 20:30 – 21:30
Amin Maalouf & Jonathan Sacks: Rediscovering Our Moral Compass
Fri 28 Aug 16:00 – 17:00
Sebastian Barry: Tales from an Uncivil War
Fri 28 Aug 17:30 – 18:30
Brit Bennett: How the Other Twin Lives
Fri 28 Aug 19:00 – 20:00
Ali Smith & Sarah Wood: Festival – a Film
Fri 28 Aug 20:30 – 21:30
Sarah Crossan with Sally Magnusson: The Other Woman
Sat 29 Aug 13:00 – 14:00
William Dalrymple with Fergal Keane: Rapacity and Excess in Imperial India
Sat 29 Aug 14:30 – 15:30
Should Capitalism Survive Climate Change?
Sat 29 Aug 17:30 – 18:30
Elif Shafak: Writing the World’s Wrongs
Sat 29 Aug 20:30 – 21:30
Masha Gessen with Philippe Sands: Facing Down President Putin
Sun 30 Aug 13:00 – 14:00
Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac: How We Can Survive the Climate Crisis
Sun 30 Aug 20:30 – 21:30
Arundhati Roy: Portal to a New World
Mon 31 Aug 16:00 – 17:00
Scottish BAME Writers Network Showcase: Scotland’s Heritage, Then and Now
Mon 31 Aug 17:30 – 18:30
Closing Night: A Case For Hope
Mon 31 Aug 20:30 – 21:30
所有节目需要到爱丁堡图书节的网站上观看。
