Was the 1960s a good decade for Norman Mailer? Thomas Meaney reconsiders the work; Henry Hitchings on Auberon Waugh, anarcho-snob and master of the "vituperative arts"; Toby Lichtig on the vitality of documentary filmmaking
‘Collected Essays of the 1960s’ and ‘Four Books of the 1960s’ by Norman Mailer
A Scribbler in Soho: A celebration of Auberon Waugh, edited by Naim Attallah
Waugh on Wine, by Auberon Waugh
Say What Happened: A story of documentaries, by Nick Fraser
O brasileiro passa, em média, 9 horas e 14 minutos por dia conectado à internet. Desse tempo, 3 horas e 39 minutos são gastos nas redes sociais. Segundo estudos diversos, o uso excessivo de Facebook, Instagram, Twitter e companhia tem um impacto profundo – e não muito positivo – na nossa mente.
Existe, por exemplo, gente que vai até um lago na Sibéria fazer fotos diante de águas de um azul-turquesa cintilante. O problema? O lugar é um depósito de lixo químico, e a cor das águas é resultado de produtos tóxicos.
Por todo o mundo pessoas estão morrendo ao tentar tirar fotos de si mesmas. É gente que cai de penhasco, que é atropelada por ônibus, que morre afogada.
Este episódio é dividido em duas partes. Na primeira, investigamos como essas novas tecnologias estão mudando nossa mente e nosso comportamento como sociedade.
Na segunda, espiamos por baixo do tapete do Facebook para saber como e por que os algoritmos do Mark Zuckerberg tentam manipular os usuários.
Confira no episódio 14 de Escafandro. Assine no seu aplicativo de podcast predileto e ouça de graça
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Elaine Showalter on the “avid, ardent, driven, generous, narcissistic, Olympian, obtuse, maddening, sometimes loveable but not very likeable” Susan Sontag; Patrice Higonnet goes in search of the real Robespierre; A. N. Wilson cuts through class, aristocracy, family and fantasy in Downton Abbey
Sontag: Her life, by Benjamin Moser
Robespierre: L’homme qui nous divise le plus, by Marcel Gauchet
Downton Abbey (Various cinemas)
Almanach de Gotha 2019, two volumes, edited by John James
O crítico de cinema Sérgio Augusto e o ator e escritor Gregorio Duvivier abrem o programa com uma conversa sobre o livro de memórias de Fernanda Montenegro. Em seguida, a poeta Mel Duarte fala da cena brasileira de spoken word (poesia falada), com participação especial da crítica literária Mariana Mendes. O episódio fecha com uma bonus track em que Duvivier e Sérgio Augusto falam de Bacurau e outros filmes e livros.
"When future historians study these troubled times, they will marvel at the relentless rise of sea levels, strongman politics and Kardashians." So says Irina Dumitrescu, who joins us to discuss the phenomenon of celebrity, from Sarah Bernhardt to the Kardashian-Jenners; Rafia Zakaria on the murder of the Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch, aka "How I'm looking?" girl; Lamorna Ash on 'Bait', a new film about a timeless clash between them and us, set in a small Cornish fishing village
The Drama of Celebrity by Sharon Marcus
Kardashian Kulture: How celebrities changed life in the 21st century by Ellis Cashmore
Tweenhood: Femininity and celebrity in tween popular culture by Melanie Kennedy
A Woman Like Her: The short life of Qandeel Baloch by Sanam Maher
No dia 25 de janeiro, a Barragem do Córrego do Feijão, da mineradora Vale, se rompeu criando uma avalanche de 12,7 milhões de metros cúbicos de lama e rejeito de minério de ferro.
Em instantes, a lama matou mais de duzentas pessoas, exterminou animais, destruiu casas, arrastou máquinas, veículos, e deixou a cidade de Brumadinho em estado de calamidade.
A apresentadora e repórter da Band News FM Gabriela Mayer esteve duas vezes no local da tragédia. Uma, logo após o rompimento. Outra, seis meses depois.
Neste episódio, ela conta como foi a cobertura dessa catástrofe e compartilha trechos de entrevistas e conversas com os moradores locais.
Assine Escafandro no seu aplicativo de podcast predileto e ouça de graça!
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The future of the planet is in question this week, or at least, humanity's place on it, as Gabrielle Walker discusses possible solutions to climate change and why we don't need to panic - yet - but we do need to act, together. The TLS's fiction editor, Toby Lichtig, talks us through the hype and hoopla around Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale - and what the book itself is like. And are you Team Scott or Team Zelda? Joanna Scutts looks at 'the messy intertextuality of a marriage', and the question of influence within the Fitzgerald ménage.
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change byNathaniel Rich
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour
Quarto episódio do podcast de livros da revista Quatro Cinco Um. Uma conversa com Luiz Felipe de Alencastro sobre política e história do Brasil abre o programa. Em seguida, Heloísa Buarque de Holanda fala sobre pensamento feminista com Branca Vianna, do podcast Maria Vai Com as Outras. E Ricardo Abramovay discute os riscos da vida digital para a democracia, a economia e os direitos humanos.
We turn to children's and YA literature in this week's episode, with Rozalind Dineen and Toby Lichtig presenting new releases (as reviewed by a selection of young readers), as well as discussing some of the pros and cons of age-specific reading; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst reintroduces J. M. Barrie's classic work Peter Pan, where a wild imagination masks tragic, sometimes disturbing, realities
Gravamos 17 horas de rotina de uma casa coletiva. São dez adultos, seis crianças e seis gatos morando juntos e dividindo os espaços comuns de um casarão em São Paulo. Contas e tarefas domésticas também são compartilhadas, num esquema orgânico em que há apenas uma regra: cada dia um dos adultos prepara o jantar para todo mundo.
Mergulhe nessa história escutando o Episódio 12 de Escafandro. Assine no seu aplicativo de podcast predileto e ouça de graça.
What kind of son was Philip Larkin? The TLS's poetry editor Alan Jenkins finds insight in some of the 4,000-odd letters and postcards the poet sent home to his "Mop" and "Pop"; Helen Macdonald, the author of H is for Hawk, tells us more than we could ever hope to know about pigeons and pigeon fanciers; Norma Clarke considers the internet artist Cold War Steve, whose ‘furious absurdism’ has won him some 192.8K Twitter followers, and ponders connections with the eighteenth-century satires of Hogarth and Gillray
Letters Home, 1936–1977, by Philip Larkin, edited by James Booth
Homing: On pigeons, dwellings, and why we return, by Jon Day
Cold War Steve Presents...The Festival of Brexit, by Cold War Steve
No final da década de 1990, uma pequena cidade da grande São Paulo viveu um escândalo que abalou a politica nacional. Todos os vereadores da câmara municipal foram subitamente afastados de seus mandatos. Menos um.
No primeiro episódio de Escafandro, partimos dessa história para mostrar um pouco de como são os homens públicos mais próximos da população: os vereadores.
E de como as câmaras municipais replicam a política de outras esferas, criando heróis e vilões que mudam de lado com o tempo, ou apenas conforme o ponto de vista de quem observa.
Confira no Episódio 11 de Escafandro. Assine no seu aplicativo de podcast predileto e ouça de graça
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Terceiro episódio do podcast de livros da revista Quatro Cinco Um. No primeiro bloco, uma conversa com o escritor Daniel Galera sobre Máquinas como eu, romance sobre inteligência artificial de Ian McEwan. Em seguida, as curadoras de uma exposição no MASP sobre arte feita por mulheres, Lilia Schwarcz e Mariana Leme, comentam o apagamento das artistas femininas na história da arte e a redescoberta de seu legado. E no terceiro bloco os antropólogos Luiz Eduardo Soares e Gabriel Feltran, autores de Desmilitarizar e de Irmãos: uma história do PCC, discutem a crise de segurança e as propostas de desmilitarização das polícias e de legalização das drogas.
The whereabouts of the "Salvator Mundi", the most costly artwork in the world, are still uncertain, as is its attribution to Leonardo da Vinci. Federico Varese, best known for his studies of the mafia, follows the trail; the TLS's history editor David Horspool considers the inner and outer worlds of Anne Frank’s diary, the actual anniversary of the Peterloo massacre, and a selection of other contributions to this week's special issue; Ladee Hubbard reflects on the late Toni Morrison, who died last week, and considers 'The Pieces I Am', a documentary that highlights Morrison's multifaceted life, work and legacy
The Collected Works, by Anne Frank, translated by Nancy Forest-Flier, Susan Massotty, Mirjam Pressler and Kirsten Warner and edited by Mirjam Pressler
Peterloo: The English uprising by Robert Poole
Legacy: One family, a cup of tea and the company that took on the world, by Thomas Harding
Jill Lepore traces the history of conspiracy theories and the conditions that allow them to thrive; Tim Crane talks us through whether we have free will or not, and why it is still a problem; Michael Caines looks at non-traditional approaches to criticism
Books
CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND THE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THEM, edited by Joseph E. Uscinski
CONSPIRACIES OF CONSPIRACIES: How delusions have overrun America, by Thomas Milan Konda
THE STIGMATIZATION OF CONSPIRACY THEORY SINCE THE 1950s: ‘A plot to make us look foolish’, by Katharina Thalmann
THE AMERICAN CONSPIRACIES AND COVER-UPS: JFK, 9/11, the Fed, rigged elections, suppressed cancer cures, and the greatest conspiracies of our time, by Douglas Cirignano
REPUBLIC OF LIES: American conspiracy theorists and their surprising rise to power, by Anna Merlan
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SAYING:The new conspiracism and the assault on democracy, by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum
HARVESTER OF HEARTS: Motherhood under the sign of Frankenstein, by Rachel Feder
THE HUNDREDS, by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart
TUNNEL VISION, by Kevin Breathnach
ON THE LITERARY MEANS OF REPRESENTING THE POWERFUL AS POWERLESS, by Steven Zultanski
The Limits of Free Will: Selected essays by Paul Russell
Aspects of Agency: Decisions, abilities, explanations, and free will by Alfred R. Mele
Self-Determination: The ethics of action – Volume One by Thomas Pink
No segundo episódio do podcast de livros da revista Quatro Cinco Um, uma conversa sobre educação com Sérgio Haddad, autor da biografia O educador: um perfil de Paulo Freire. Em entrevista, a historiadora Silvana Jeha fala de seu livro sobre a história da tatuagem no Brasil. E os livreiros Maristela Calil e Ricardo Lombardi conversam com o apresentador Paulo Werneck sobre os sebos que administram em São Paulo, Livraria Calil e Desculpe a Poeira, e sobre o mercado de livros usados no país.
Following the discovery of a strange book, Sarah Green revises the story of the late nineteenth-century poet Lionel Johnson, whose legacy was distorted in the 1950s by a criminal with a taste for fancy bedding; in the US, of 70,000 cases that went to disposition in 2016, more than 99 per cent resulted in conviction. What does this tell us? Clive Stafford Smith explains why American justice is a mirage; since 2015, Refugee Tales – part walking pilgrimage, part protest, part collection of narratives about those unjustly treated by Britain’s immigration system – has become an annual event. David Herd tells us what ground remains to be covered
Doing Justice: A prosecutor’s thoughts on crime, punishment, and the rule of law, by Preet Bharara
Nick Groom ponders the fate of the beleaguered British countryside and shares new theories about the economics of the natural world; En Liang Khong takes us through the increasingly global phenomenon of Japanese manga (which translates as “pictures run riot”); Damian Flanagan on Mishima, a writer who yearned to transcend time and identity
Green and Prosperous Land: A blueprint for rescuing the British countryside by Dieter Helm
Who Owns England?: How we lost our green and pleasant land and how to take it back, by Guy Shrubsole
Manga, and exhibition at the British Museum in London
Star, by Yukio Mishima; translated by Sam Bett
The Frolics of the Beasts, by Yukio Mishima; translated by Andrew Clare
"The sociable side of nineteenth-century musical life is not acknowledged as often as it should be..." – Laura Tunbridge discusses the interconnected, complicated and often contradictory myths and realities that link Chopin, Schumann and Brahms; the TLS's music editor Lucy Dallas takes us through a selection of other pieces on music in this week's issue, including new histories of the blues and the poetic pop of Kate Bush and the Pet Shop Boys; when Irving Sandler wrote his seminal history of abstract expressionism, he neglected to mention Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan and Elaine de Kooning – Jenni Quilter joins us to put these artists back in the frame
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler: Five painters and the movement that changed modern art, by Mary Gabriel
Fryderyk Chopin: A life and times by Alan Walker
Schumann: The faces and masks by Judith Chernaik
Brahms in Context, edited by Natasha Loges and Katy Hamilton
(with Liebeslieder Walzer, Opus 52, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra)
Up Jumped the Devil: The real life of Robert Johnson by Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow
The Original Blues: The emergence of the Blues in African American vaudeville, by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
It’s the centenary of the birth of Iris Murdoch, the novelist-philosopher who dominated the literary pages for much of the twentieth century. Where do we stand on her now? Michael Caines and Frances Wilson discuss; This was the week that the US women’s football team won the World Cup. Devoney Looser, the roller derby queen of academia, enjoys “a brief opportunity to revel in America’s better strengths”.
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