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January 16, 2020 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, finally, Virginia Woolf, who saw it reduced to rubble. Francesca Wade, the author of 'Square Haunting: Five women, freedom and London between the wars', talks to Thea Lenarduzzi about what drew the women to this small pocket of Bloomsbury. Read an exclusive extract from 'Square Haunting' in this week's TLS, in print and online. 'Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on how to read' is available to purchase via the TLS website.
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35 min
January 16, 2020 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 author of Square Haunting: Five women, freedom and London between the wars (you'll find the full interview in your podcast feed); this month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Anne Brontë, the sister whose reputation has been slowest to blossom but who, according to Samantha Ellis, was the most radical and modern of them all
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54 min
January 09, 2020 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 recently opened archive of T. S. Eliot's letters; Jeffrey Wainwright reads his poem "If all this did begin"

Books

From Victims to Suspects: Muslim women since 9/11 by Shakira Hussein
It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race, edited by Mariam Khan
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
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43 min
January 02, 2020 Apples and oranges in space
Sam Graydon grapples with quantum physics and the subatomic world; Elaine Showalter considers the 'startlingly racy, contradictory, emblematic' E. Nesbit, the 'first modern writer for children'; Which out-of-print books should be back in circulation and why? Roz Dineen presents the results of a TLS symposium

Books

Six Impossible Things: The ‘quanta of solace’ and the mysteries of the subatomic world, by John Gribbin
Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The search for what lies beyond the quantum, by Lee Smolin
The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of ‘The Railway Children’, by Eleanor Fitzsimons
The Extraordinary Life of E. Nesbit: Author of ‘Five Children and It’ and ‘The Railway Children’, by Elisabeth Galvin
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51 min
December 19, 2019 The decade that was
TLS editors gather to consider some of the decade’s major cultural shifts and events, with specialist insights from Mary Beard on academia, Beejay Silcox on fiction and Zoe Williams on gender

Go to the-tls.co.uk for the full twelve-page retrospective.
For the competition, Barbican membership Terms and Conditions can be found here: https://www.barbican.org.uk/join-support/membership#faqs. The competition closes December 31, 2019. Good luck.
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1 hr 3 min
December 12, 2019 Haunted by Miss Austen
A newly discovered, pseudonymously signed mock-letter to the editor of 'The Lady’s Magazine' in 1823 tells the story of a wannabe writer who is visited by the "gentle spirit of Miss Austen". Not only might the letter offer new information on what Austen might actually have been like, says Devoney Looser, it is also the first piece of Jane Austen-inspired fan fiction; Anna Picard discusses the poet Anne Boyer’s memoir of modern illness and considers the intersections of literature and cancer; Jonathan Lynn shares memories of adventures with his cousin Oliver Sacks

For more on the Jane Austen story, go to www.the-tls.co.uk
'The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care' by Anne Boyer
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46 min
December 05, 2019 The Iron Lady and the judo politician
Norma Clarke considers the third and final volume of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher; having spent the past twenty years reporting on Russia, Owen Matthews tries to put his finger on why Vladimir Putin may prove to be one of the most successful political leaders of our era

Books
The Code of Putinism by Brian Taylor
Putin’s World: Russia against the West and with the rest by Angela Stent
The Putin System: An opposing view by Grigory Yavlinsky
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the second coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
The Return of the Russian Leviathan by Sergei Medvedev, translated by Stephen Dalziel
We Need To Talk about Putin: How the West gets him wrong by Mark Galeotti
Dealing with the Russians by Andrew Monaghan
Putin v. the People: The perilous politics of a divided Russia by Samuel A. Greene and Graeme B. Robertson
Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The path from market economy to kleptocracy by Anders Åslund
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45 min
November 28, 2019 Books of the Year, 2019
It's that time again... TLS contributors and editors share recommendations from a year of reading
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46 min
November 28, 2019 Hallie Rubenhold – an interview
The author of 'The Five: The untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper', which won the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, speaks to Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi
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18 min
November 21, 2019 Elizabeth Strout – an interview
Just over ten years since introducing readers to a frustrated maths teacher called Oliver Kitteridge, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Elizabeth Strout reprises the character in a new novel, ‘Olive, Again’. Here, Strout talks to the TLS’s Roz Dineen about the craft of writing, why Olive has returned, and ageing on the page
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20 min