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Jewish Identity in 2020
Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman, and Jonathan Freedland join Matthew Sweet.
6 years, 1 month ago
Storm Jameson - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
What is a writer's duty? Katie Cooper considers Storm Jameson's campaigning for refugees, her 1940 appeal To the Conscience of the World and why her …
6 years, 1 month ago
Frank Ramsey
Shahidha Bari looks at the legacy of Frank Ramsey who died in 1930 aged 27, but not before doing work that changed the course of philosophy, logic, m…
6 years, 1 month ago
New Thinking: Women in Virtual Reality
Hetta Howes learns how Sylvia Xueni Pan from Goldsmiths, University of London is using VR to do everything from training GPs not to overprescribe ant…
6 years, 1 month ago
Anne Enright + the value of gossip
The Irish novelist Anne Enright talks to Laurence Scott about her new book Actress and being the inaugural Irish laureate, plus a discussion of gossi…
6 years, 1 month ago
Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
Author of the first prose romance published in England in 1621, her reputation at court was ruined by her thinly veiled autobiographical writing. Vis…
6 years, 1 month ago
Charlotte Smith - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
New Generation Thinker Sophie Coulombeau argues that we should salute this woman who supported her family through her writing, who perfected sonnets …
6 years, 1 month ago
Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
The novel Miss Marjoribanks (1866) brought to life a large comic heroine who bucked 19th-century conventions. New Generation Thinker Clare Walker Gor…
6 years, 1 month ago
Yolande Mukagasana - women writers to put back on the bookshelf
New Generation Thinker Zoe Norridge describes translating the testimony of a nurse who survived the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
In Rwa…
6 years, 1 month ago
How archictecture shapes society
Ricky Burdett, Liza Fior, Des Fitzgerald, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & Edwin Heathcote discuss ideals made concrete in an event chaired by Anne McElvoy…
6 years, 1 month ago