The Omani novelist Jokha al-Harthi and the translator Marilyn Booth won this year's Man Booker International prize for fiction in translation, for the novel Celestial Bodies, an account of three sisters living in the village of al-Awafi in an Oman on the brink of change. A couple of days after the announcement, at Waterstones book shop in Piccadilly, the winners spoke to the Turkish novelist Elif Shafak about the novel, Arabic culture and modernisation, translation, and women’s wisdom.

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Anna Katharina Schaffner on the cultural history of fat and fat phobia; the TLS's travel editor Catharine Morris on why Paris will always be disappointing, the solitude of open spaces, and the problem with "Victor" the archetypal travel writer; an extract from the 2019 Man Booker International prize-winning Celestial Bodies by Jokha al-Harthi, read by the novel's translator Marilyn Booth 

Books

Fat: A cultural history of the stuff of life by Christopher E. Forth

The Truth About Fat by Anthony Warner

Fearing the Black Body: The racial origins of fat phobia by Sabrina Strings

We’ll Never Have Paris, edited by Andrew Gallix

The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich

Heida: A shepherd at the edge of the world by Steinunn Sigurðardóttir and Heiða Ásgeirsdóttír, translated by Philip Roughton

Where the Hornbeam Grows: A journey in search of a garden by Beth Lynch

The Cambridge History of Travel Writing, edited by Nandini Das and Tim Youngs

Celestial Bodies by Jokha al-Harthi, translated by Marilyn Booth

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No último século, os animais vertebrados desapareceram da face da terra numa velocidade cem vezes mais rápida do que o normal. Isso significa que o planeta está vivendo a sexta extinção em massa.

A última foi há 65 milhões de anos, quando um asteroide se chocou com a terra e fulminou os dinossauros. Agora esse processo tem uma causa diferente: a explosão populacional do Homo sapiens. Boa parte desses impactos são causados pela agricultura, que tem sido feita de forma nada amigável ao ambiente.

Até meados de maio, por exemplo, o governo Federal tinha aprovado o registro de 166 novos agrotóxicos. Quarenta e oito deles são da classe I, que apresenta o maior risco toxicológico.

Diante desse quadro, tentamos responder algumas perguntas. Quais são as saídas para essa situação? É possível cultivar alimentos em grande escala sem os impactos atuais? Ou, numa saída mais extrema, é hora de a humanidade parar de crescer? E se for esse o caso, existe alguma forma de isso acontecer sem grandes catástrofes sociais?

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Josimar Melo

Crítico de gastronomia do jonal Folha de S.Paulo, presidente da seção brasileira do júri do prêmio 50 Best.

Enrique Ortega Rodriguez

Professor da Unicamp, engenheiro químico com mestrado e doutorado em Engenharia de Alimentos.

José Maria Gusman Ferraz

Biólogo, ecologista, pós-doutor em Agroecologia pela Universidade de Córdoba.

Bruno Puga

Economista, com mestrado e doutorado em Desenvolvimento Econômico pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Presidente regional da Sociedade Brasileira de Economia Ecológica.

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To mark the bicentenary of Queen Victoria's birth, the TLS's history editor David Horspool guides us through all manner of Victorian matters, including the Widow of Windsor's mastery of soft power, how different things might have been had she been born a boy, how the Victorians amused themselves, and the Rebecca Riots; we also have a symposium in this week's paper, asking writers and thinkers – including Steven Pinker and Bernardine Evaristo – to tell us about the important books from their childhoods. To discuss this – and to share our own youthful reading – we're joined in the studio by a [insert collective noun here] of TLS editors 

Go to www.the-tls.co.uk/ to read a selection of articles from our Victorian special issue, and much more.

Our symposium was prompted by an initiative – Books To Inspire – launched by Hay Festival Wales, aiming to compile a crowd-sourced list of titles to inspire the next generation. Find out more at hayfestival.com

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The comedian and writer Helen Lederer joins us to discuss gender and comedy and the new Comedy Women In Print Prize; Lucy Dallas considers a clutch of novels in which animals might offer a little respite from human company; the TLS’s philosophy editor Tim Crane guides us through the riches of this week’s philosophy issue, including how the advent of biological immortality might augur “the greatest inequality experienced in all human history” and what happened when Michel Foucault took LSD in Death Valley

 

To Leave with the Reindeer by Olivia Rosenthal, translated by Sophie Lewis

Animalia by Jean-Baptiste del Amo, translated by Frank Wynne

The Animal Gazer by Edgardo Franzosini, translated by Michael F. Moore

“The last mortals: why we are especially unfortunate to die, when our near-descendants could be immortal", by Regini Rini – see this week’s TLS (in print and online)

Foucault in California: A true story, wherein the great French philosopher drops acid in the Valley of Death by Simeon Wade

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