Jeremy Bassetti may have ended his Travel Writing World podcast, but he is still interviewing authors in his Creative Journeys slot. Episodes featuring Alastair Humphreys and Pico Iyer are already online. In forthcoming ones, Bassetti will be chatting to Aatish Taseer, whose newest book, A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile, comes out in the US next week*; Monisha Rajesh, whose Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train is out on August 28 (Bloomsbury, £22); and Lance Richardson, whose biography, True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen, is due in October (Chatto & Windus, £30).

*Taseer, who was born in New Delhi and became an American citizen in 2020, recently drove across the US for The New York Times, “to see what it truly means to belong to a place”.