This week, Colin Jones explores the streets of Paris as the French Revolution grew pace; and an extract from a very special event at the British Library in celebration of Hilary Mantel.
'The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789', by Robert Darnton
'A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing', by Hilary Mantel
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week’s episode in our series on the great essays and great essayists explores Umberto Eco’s ‘Thoughts on Wikileaks’ (2010). Eco writes about what makes a true scandal, what are real secrets, and what it would mean to expose the hidden workings of power. It is an essay that connects digital technology, medieval mystery and Dan Brown. Plus David talks about the hidden meaning of Julian Assange.
More from the LRB:
Andrew O’Hagan on Julian Assange
‘I’d never been with a person who had such a good cause and such a poor ear.’
Frank Kermode on the Name of the Rose
‘This novel has so much in it that differs from any known kind of detective story that we must look to Eco’s pre-semiotic career for help.’
Jenny Diski on Eco and ugliness
‘The breadth of Eco’s search spreads out to include disgust, horror, fear, obscenity, misogyny, perversity, bigotry, social exclusiveness, repression, inexplicability, evil, deformation, degradation, heterogeneity.’
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This week, Ruth Scurr on a magnificent biography of Claude Monet; and Fiona Stafford explores how vital trees were to Wordsworth's work.
'Monet: the restless vision', by Jackie Wullschläger
'Versed in living nature: Wordsworth's trees', by Peter Dale and Brandon C Yen
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week, Theo Zenou introduces us to the heroes of Jewish boxing; and Sophie Oliver on the development of Virginia Woolf's 'frock consciousness' .
'Stars and scars: The story of Jewish boxing in London', by Jeff Jones
'Bring no clothes: Bloomsbury and the philosophy of fashion', by Charlie Porter
'Bring no clothes: Bloomsbury and Fashion', at Charleston in Lewes until 7 January 2024
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week David asks Mary Beard what the Roman Empire can tell us about the nature of unaccountable power, then and now. How did Roman emperors rule when they had so little knowledge of the lives of their subjects? Can absolute personal power ever escape the limits of biology, from sex to death? And who are the modern-day equivalent of the Caesars: democratic populists or tech titans?
Mary Beard’s new book is Emperor of Rome
Read or listen to Mary Beard’s LRB lecture on Women in Power
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O jornalista Bernardo Esteves conversa sobre seu livro "Admirável novo mundo", sobre a ocupação do 'homo sapiens' no continente americano e no mundo, como as culturas indígenas contam essa história e as ligações da arqueologia e de outras ciências com o colonialismo. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, Ysenda Maxtone Graham on the women who fought their way into horticulture; and Mary Beard leads us down a Homeric rabbit hole.
'An almost impossible thing: the radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners', by Fiona Davison
'Homer and his Iliad', by Robin Lane Fox
'The Iliad', translated by Emily Wilson
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week David talks to the novelist Zadie Smith about Charles Dickens: what he means to her, why we still read him, and what’s missing from the Dickensian view of the world. It’s a conversation about other writers as well – Turgenev, George Orwell and Toni Morrison – and about whether fiction shows us how to live or rather helps us to see the ways in which the truth about how we live is hidden from view.
Zadie Smith’s new novel is The Fraud, available now.
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Por que sentimos que não temos tempo para nada? Como o nosso estilo de vida faz parecer que tudo está acelerado? O que o modo de produção capitalista e a economia moderna têm a ver com essa percepção? E como isso se relaciona com a entropia: um dos conceitos mais interessantes, misteriosos e importantes da física.
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Jornalista, escritor, cientista social, professor da Faculdade Cásper Líbero e autor do livro “em tempo para nada: Como tudo ficou acelerado, por que estamos tão cansados e as alternativas realistas para mudar” (Vozes, 2022).
Professor da Escola de Engenharia de Lorena (EEL-USP), doutor em ciência e engenharia de materiais, pós doutor em física.
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Locução adicional: Priscila Pastre.
Design das capas dos aplicativos e do site: Cláudia Furnari.
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama.
Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.
Apoio de produção: Ana Carolina Maciel.
Apoio de edição: Matheus Marcolino.
Direção, roteiro e edição: Tomás Chiaverini.
A escritora Eliana Alves Cruz e o poeta Jorge Augusto falam da busca pela própria ancestralidade por meio da literatura e a importância de festivais literários fora do circuito Rio-São Paulo, como a Flica, a Festa Literária Internacional de Cachoeira, na Bahia. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, Elizabeth Lowry is impressed by a study of Hardy’s late-life love poetry; and TLS science editor Sam Graydon on his ‘mosaic’ biography of Einstein
‘Woman much missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and poetry’, by Mark Ford
‘Einstein in time and space: a life in 99 particles’, by Samuel Graydon
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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This week’s episode in our series on the great political essays is about David Foster Wallace’s ‘Up, Simba!’, which describes his experiences following the doomed campaign of John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. Wallace believed that McCain’s distinctive political style revealed some hard truths about American democracy. Was he right? What did he miss? And how do those truths look now in the age of Trump?
More on David Foster Wallace from the LRB:
Jenny Turner on Wallace and his moment
‘The risk Wallace takes is to guess he is not the only "obscenely well-educated", curiously lost and empty white boy out there; that his sadness is also the experience of a whole historical moment.’
Patricia Lockwood on Wallace and his influence
‘It was the essayists who were left to cope with his almost radioactive influence. He produced a great deal of excellent writing, the majority of it not his own.’
Dale Peck’s notorious takedown of Infinite Jest
‘If nothing else, the success of Infinite Jest is proof that the Great American Hype machine can still work wonders.’
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