All Those Old Familiar Places
This week, Elizabeth Dearnley hunts for the hags, fairies and wandering women of the pagan past; and Ruth Scurr on a thrilling final book from the celebrated journalist Janet Malcolm.‘Queens of the Wi...
2 Feb 202351min
The Gene Genie
Nessa Carey explores how recent scientific breakthroughs allow experimentation with the DNA of all living species.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-genetic-age-matthew-cobb-book-review-nessa-care...
29 Jan 202315min
Telling It Like It Is
Richard Smyth remembers the equanimity and attentiveness of Ronald Blythe; and Mary Flannery on the enduring appeal of Alison, the Wife of Bath.‘Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside’ ...
26 Jan 202350min
Stories That Simply Unfold
Kirsty Gunn considers Katherine Mansfield’s place in the literary canon.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/all-sorts-of-lives-katherine-mansfield-claire-harman-book-review-kirsty-gunn/ Hosted on Acast...
22 Jan 202317min
Rattling The Handle On Life
This week, Gabriel Roberts explores the past, present and - we very much hope - the future of bioabundance in animal species; and novelist Gwendoline Riley takes us into the affecting and brutally fun...
19 Jan 202352min
A Sea-Brooding Poet
Christy Edwall reflects on a meditations on Keats’s poems, and a new account of his last days.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/a-greeting-of-the-spirit-susan-wolfson-written-in-water-alessandro-gall...
16 Jan 202316min
Radical Barbie
Olivia Laing secrets and lies in the life and work of Kathy Acker.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/eat-your-mind-kathy-acker-jason-mcbride-book-review-olivia-laing/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
9 Jan 202325min
Festive Shadows and Feasts of Panackelty
This week, Lucy Lethbridge explains what a curate's eye is, and how ideas of British cooking range from Aga fantasies to bacon butties; and J. S. Barnes takes us to the dark side of the festive season...
22 Dec 202243min
