Can't go on. Go on.
The TLS Podcast13 Feb 2020

Can't go on. Go on.

Is it the best of times or the worst of times to be a satirist? Madeleine Brettingham, a writer on the BBC's News Quiz, joins us to discuss; Toby Lichtig on a new production of Endgame and the constraints imposed on Samuel Beckett adaptations; founded in the 1960s, the Oulipo was – and remains – a group of writers and scientists striving for "potential literature". Anna Aslanyan considers the movement's legacy


March of the Lemmings: Brexit in print and performance 2016–2019, by Stewart Lee

The Joke is On Us: Political comedy in (late) neoliberal times, edited by Julie A. Webber

Endgame / Rough For Theatre II, at the Old Vic theatre, London

The Oulipo and Modern Thought, by Dennis Duncan

All that is Evident is Suspect: Readings from the Oulipo 1963–2018, edited and translated by Daniel Levin Becker and Ian Monk

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