The TLS Podcast

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Benjamin Markovits, the novelist, critic and teacher of creative writing, to discuss 100 American essays spanning 300-odd years (‘have we got any better at it?’); the sinologist Rana Mitter discusses the supremely difficult, and controversial, job of adapting the Chinese script for the modern age; plus, ‘Edelweiss’, a poignant new poem by Fiona Benson

‘The Glorious American Essay: One hundred essays from colonial times to the present’, edited by Phillip Lopate

‘Kingdom of Characters: A tale of language, obsession, and genius in modern China’ by Jing Tsu

Produced by Sophia Franklin

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the writer and broadcaster Muriel Zagha to discuss 'Nightmare Alley', an unsettling vision of delight and deceit from the Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro; the historian Abigail Green explores the untold stories of the women behind Europe’s premier banking dynasty, the Rothschilds; plus, a dinosaur poem of note

'Nightmare Alley', various cinemas

'The Women of Rothschild: The untold story of the world’s most famous dynasty' by Natalie Livingstone

Produced by Sophia Franklin

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the poet A. E. Stallings to reconsider the ground-breaking work of Edna St Vincent Millay, a modern but not modernist poet, once judged 'the most glamorous, sexually-dangerous since Byron'; Thomas Morris, the author of medical and crime histories, delves into the often-troubling history of medical transplants; plus, a new poem by Ben Wilkinson, ‘What We Were’

'Poems and Satires' by Edna St Vincent Millay, edited by Tristram Fane Saunders

'Spare Parts: A surprising history of transplants' by Paul Craddock

Produced by Sophia Franklin.

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the writer and translator Chiara Marchelli to revisit the work of Antonio Tabucchi, a master of the uncanny, ten years after his death; and the multilingual critic Irina Dumitrescu discusses a poignant study of bilingualism that considers how mother tongues are lost and found and at what cost

‘Little Misunderstandings of No Importance: And other stories’, by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Frances Frenaye

‘Requiem: A hallucination’, by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

‘Pereira Maintains: A testimony’, by Antonio Tabucchi, translated by Patrick Creagh

‘Memory Speaks: On losing and reclaiming language and self’ by Julie Sedivy

Produced by Sophia Franklin

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas look back at this year’s podcasts.

We hear from Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Drabble, Mary Beard and Paul Muldoon, among others, covering literature, film, art, poetry and much more.

Produced by Sophia Franklin

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas look back at this year’s podcasts.

We hear from Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Drabble, Mary Beard and Paul Muldoon, among others, covering literature, film, art, poetry and much more.

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A conversation between the novelists Sarah Hall and Sarah Moss, both of whose most recent novels confront life in the middle of a pandemic, chaired by the TLS’s fiction editor Toby Lichtig.

(This event was recorded in November at Hay Festival’s Winter Weekend)

'Burntcoat' by Sarah Hall

'The Fell' by Sarah Moss

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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Francesca Wade, at work on a book about Gertrude Stein’s afterlife, to discuss Stein’s ‘lost’ notebooks – and the magnificent amount of research conducted by Leon Katz, who discovered them some seventy years ago – and shed new light on the writer’s process and personal life; and the musician and critic Wesley Stace takes us back to a stormy but productive time in the life of The Beatles, via a new film by Peter Jackson

‘No no no, nonsense, never: Hidden notebooks reveal the tense relationships behind Gertrude Stein’s genius’ by Francesca Wade, in this week’s TLS.

‘The Beatles: Get Back’, on Disney+

Produced by Sophia Franklin

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This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark discuss roses, Orwell and rhizomatic thinking with Margaret Drabble; Kathryn Hughes is our guide through histories of self-improvement; plus, what log-rolling really means.

'Orwell's Roses' by Rebecca Solnit

'The Art of Self-Improvement' by Anna Katharina Schaffner

The Log Driver's Waltz: https://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz

Produced by Sophia Franklin

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