Anne Enright – a reading from Actress
The Irish novelist reads an extract from her new novel, published in this week's TLS, in print, app and online Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
13 Feb 202019min
Daniel Kehlmann, an interview
One of Germany's most acclaimed novelists talks to Maren Meinhardt about his new novel, Tyll, a vivid account of a seventeenth-century trickster's journey through a Europe ravaged by the Thirty Years’...
6 Feb 202029min
Bringing Tolstoy down
Caryl Emerson on Tolstoy’s art, ideas and life, and the extent to which these came together; Benjamin Markovits returns to a treasured childhood book: The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook...
6 Feb 202046min
Carrier bag or stick?
Lucy Dallas reports on theories, developments and disputes in the world of science fiction; Lawrence Douglas adds crucial historical context – stretching back to the Middle Ages, in fact – to the curr...
30 Jan 202052min
Byron's oddness
Did Byron have an eating disorder? Mummy issues? Daddy issues? Does it matter? Emily A. Bernhard Jackson joins us to discuss; Stanley Donwood, the artist and designer of Radiohead's record covers, mak...
23 Jan 202050min
Huge stars in a minor key
Muriel Zagha reviews Marriage Story and considers a few other deserving/undeserving films either lauded or ignored by this year's awards panels; a clip from an interview with Francesca Wade, the autho...
16 Jan 202053min
Bonus episode: Five women, one radical address
Between 1916 and 1940, Mecklenburgh Square was home to the poet and novelist HD, the detective novelist Dorothy Sayers, the classicist Jane Ellen Harrison, the historian and activist Eileen Power, and...
16 Jan 202034min
Seen and not heard?
Sanam Maher looks at how Muslim women are viewed in the West; Claire Lowdon finds puzzles and philosophy but no pleasure in J. M. Coetzee's recent work; Alan Jenkins explains the significance of the r...
9 Jan 202042min
