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A weekly podcast on books and culture brought to you by the writers and editors of the Times Literar

Episodes

Total: 575

Can't go on. Go on.

2020/2/13

Is it the best of times or the worst of times to be a satirist? Madeleine Brettingham, a writer on t

One of Germany's most acclaimed novelists talks to Maren Meinhardt about his new novel, Tyll, a

Bringing Tolstoy down

2020/2/6

Caryl Emerson on Tolstoy’s art, ideas and life, and the extent to which these came together; Benjami

Carrier bag or stick?

2020/1/30

Lucy Dallas reports on theories, developments and disputes in the world of science fiction; Lawrence

Byron's oddness

2020/1/23

Did Byron have an eating disorder? Mummy issues? Daddy issues? Does it matter? Emily A. Bernhard Jac

Between 1916 and 1940, Mecklenburgh Square was home to the poet and novelist HD, the detective

Huge stars in a minor key

2020/1/16

Muriel Zagha reviews Marriage Story and considers a few other deserving/undeserving films

Seen and not heard?

2020/1/9

Sanam Maher looks at how Muslim women are viewed in the West; Claire Lowdon finds puzzles and philos

Sam Graydon grapples with quantum physics and the subatomic world; Elaine Showalter considers the 's

The decade that was

2019/12/19

TLS editors gather to consider some of the decade’s major cultural shifts and events, with spec

Haunted by Miss Austen

2019/12/12

A newly discovered, pseudonymously signed mock-letter to the editor of 'The Lady’s Magazine' in 1823

Norma Clarke considers the third and final volume of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher;

Books of the Year, 2019

2019/11/28

It's that time again... TLS contributors and editors share recommendations from a year of reading Ho

The author of 'The Five: The untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper', which won the 201

Just over ten years since introducing readers to a frustrated maths teacher called Oliver Kitteridge

Two phat ladies

2019/11/21

“Apart from capitalism itself, is there any cultural and economic manifestation in the world today a

How to read

2019/11/14

TLS editors talk about Virginia Woolf's writing for the TLS, as we publish a collection of the

Cold War machinations

2019/11/7

Sarah Lonsdale recounts how writers became enmeshed in national struggles; Jane Yager tells the surp

Morals and mysteries

2019/10/31

Michael Caines reports on an unprecedented gathering of work by William Hogarth, “replete with

Magazine love

2019/10/23

Having asked a selection of writers to nominate their favourite magazines/journals, for a symposium