This week, TLS editors and writers guide you through a summer of reading; and Sarah Watling explores the extraordinary story of an artistic double act.
'Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story', Charleston, Lewes, Sussex
'The Secret Art of Dorothy Hepworth, aka Patricia Preece', by Denys J. Wilcox
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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For the final episode in the current series, David discusses Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), her unforgettable dystopian vision of a future American patriarchy. Where is Gilead? When is Gilead? How did it happen? How can it be stopped? From puritanism and slavery to Iran and Romania, from demography and racism to Playboy and Scrabble, this novel takes the familiar and the known and makes them hauntingly and terrifyingly new.
Coming next: The Ideas Behind UK General Elections, starting with the game-changing election of 1906.
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In the penultimate episode of the current part of our Fictions series, David explores Salman Rushdie’s 1981 masterpiece Midnight’s Children, the great novel about the life and death of Indian democracy. How can one boy stand in for the whole of India? How can a nation as diverse as India ever have a single politics? And how is a jar of pickle the answer to these questions? Plus, how does Rushdie’s story read today, in the age of Modi?
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Durante a ditadura militar, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro escreveu sob um pseudônimo sobre a situação política brasileira para o jornal francês 'Le Monde Diplomatique'. Neste episódio, o cientista político conversa com Rodrigo Bonciani, organizador da coletânea que reúne esses artigos, "Despotismo Tropical: A ditadura e a redemocratização nas crônicas de Julia Juruna" (Tinta-da-China Brasil). No 451 MHz, eles falam sobre os poderes paralelos que atuavam durante o regime e comentam o panorama político atual. O episódio foi realizado com apoio da Lei de Incentivo à Cultura. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
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