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John Lanchester: The Case of Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie, writes John Lanchester, ‘is the only writer by whom I’ve read more than fifty books. So – why?’ In the second of our summer readings…
2 years, 7 months ago
Terry Castle: Desperately Seeking Susan
In the first of our summer readings, Terry Castle reads her 2005 piece about her “on-again, off-again, semi-friendship” with Susan Sontag. She rememb…
2 years, 7 months ago
Life in Kyiv
Almost eighteen months since Russia invaded Ukraine, Kyiv residents have resumed something resembling pre-war life. James Meek recently returned to t…
2 years, 8 months ago
Chaucer's Ovid
Irina Dumitrescu joins Tom for a Close Readings fusion episode looking at Chaucer’s classical mind, and in particular his use of Ovid’s Heroides in T…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Secrets of J. Edgar Hoover
As Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover exercised a dictatorial influence over the department – and, it seems, everyone else. Meticulous and vindicti…
2 years, 8 months ago
On David Foster Wallace
In her recent piece for the paper, Patricia Lockwood revisits David Foster Wallace’s work in the light of posthumous publications and the shadow of #…
2 years, 8 months ago
Inflation Fixation
As inflation continues to outstrip wage growth for all but the top ten per cent of earners, interest rates look set to keep rising at least until Feb…
2 years, 9 months ago
Cancelled
Last month, the UK government appointed their first “free speech tsar”, whose stated mission is to protect free speech and academic freedom in univer…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Lives of Stonehenge: John Michell and Arthur Pendragon
For her final leg across Salisbury Plain, Rosemary Hill is joined by folklorist Jeremy Harte to look at the many groups and stories that have emerged…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Lives of Stonehenge: Wordsworth and Blake
For the third episode in her short series on Stonehenge, Rosemary Hill is joined by Seamus Perry to experience the stone circle through the mind and …
2 years, 9 months ago