This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Nick Groom, Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau, to discuss William Blake, who saw wonders everywhere (including a tree on Peckham Rye), and communicated them urgently in art and poetry – what does he have to tell us now?; the critic and writer Michael Kerrigan guides us through the ‘improbably enthralling mundanities’ of the Uruguayan novelist Mario Levrero; plus, a dazzling history of Sicily, the demise of local journalism, and ‘bald’ philosophy.
William Blake Vs the World by John Higgs
The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero, translated by Annie McDermott
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The vanishing world of the local journalist by Roger Lytollis
Bald: 35 philosophical short cuts by Simon Critchley
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean history by Jamie Mackay
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In this bonus TLS long read, the writer Joan C. Williams discusses how Amazon’s business practices harm America.
www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/fulfillment-alec-macgillis-review-joan-c-williams-amazon
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas as joined by Keith Hopper, a critic of film and literature, to revisit the film ‘Midnight Cowboy’ (1969), a 'dark, difficult masterpiece' starring Jon Voight as an aspirant sex worker and Dustin Hoffman as his friend, an ailing con man; before it’s available in English, the journalist Henri Astier delves into the 'secret' diary of Michel Barnier, the European Union’s Brexit negotiator, who the British tabloids named 'the most dangerous man in Europe'; plus, what does Brexit mean for books?
‘Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, sex, loneliness, liberation, and the making of a dark classic’ by Glenn Frankel
‘La Grande Illusion: Journal secret du Brexit (2016-2020)’ by Michel Barnier
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Figura central da arquitetura brasileira, Lina Bo Bardi tem duas importantes biografias publicadas no Brasil e é homenageada na Bienal de Veneza. Os dois livros, a obra e o legado de Lina são analisados pela colunista Bianca Tavolari, que coordena a seção As Cidades e As Coisas na revista Quatro Cinco Um.
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Noo Saro-Wiwa, the author of ‘Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria’, to discuss developments in travel writing; Alice Kelly, the author of ‘Commemorative Modernisms: Women writers, death and the First World War’, considers how conflict permeates American culture; plus, a new poem by André Naffis-Sahely, ‘At the Graves of Labour’s Fallen’
‘The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in search of a genre’ by Tim Hannigan
‘War and American Literature’, edited by Jennifer Haytock
‘A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War’, edited by Tim Dayton and Mark W. Van Wienen
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In this bonus TLS long read, the writer Joyce Carol Oates explores the quintessential American minimalism of Walker Evans.
www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/walker-evans-svetlana-alpers-review-joyce-carol-oates
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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Adam Watt, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Exeter, to mark 150 years since the birth of Marcel Proust, whose legacy seems stronger than ever; Sarah Lonsdale, the author of 'Rebel Women Between the Wars', re-considers ‘Diary of a Provincial Lady’, a funny novel about interwar life in deepest Devon whose darker tones tend to be overlooked; plus, Mary Beard on new developments at the Colosseum.
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