This week, Nicola Shulman introduces the volunteer army who joined James Murray to create the OED; and John Niven on his extraordinary memoir of his brother's life.
'The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford
English Dictionary', by Sarah Ogilvie
'O Brother', by John Niven
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For the last episode in our summer season on the great twentieth-century essays and essayists, David discusses Joan Didion's 'The White Album' (1979), her haunting, impressionistic account of the fracturing of America in the late 1960s. From Jim Morrison to the Manson murders, Didion offers a series of snapshots of a society coming apart in ways no one seemed to understand. But what was true, what was imagined, and where did the real sickness lie?
More on Joan Didion from the LRB archive:
Thomas Powers on Didion and California:
'The thing that California taught her to fear most was snakes, especially rattlesnakes...This gets close to Didion's core anxiety: watching for something that could be anywhere, was easily overlooked, could kill you or a child playing in the garden – just like that.'
Mary-Kay Wilmers on Didion and memory:
'Reassurance is something Didion doesn't need. She is talking to herself, weighing up the past, going over old stories, keeping herself company. Staging herself.'
Martin Amis on Didion's style:
'The Californian emptiness arrives and Miss Didion attempts to evolve a style, or manner, to answer to it. Here comes divorces, breakdowns, suicide bids, spliced-up paragraphs, 40-word chapters and italicised wedges of prose that used to be called "fractured".'
Patricia Lockwood on reading Didion now:
'To revisit Slouching Towards Bethlehem or The White Album is to read an old up-to-the-minute relevance renewed. Inside these essays the coming revolution feels neither terrifying nor exhilarating but familiar – if you are a reader of Joan Didion, you have been studying it all your life.'
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Autores de livros sobre o STF voltados para o grande público, Diego Werneck Arguelhes e Conrado Hübner Mendes discutem o funcionamento, os limites e a importância da Suprema Corte brasileira e do Judiciário para a consolidação da democracia e da justiça social no país. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, Adam Mars-Jones on the "fractal brocade" of his semi-infinite novel series; and Amber Massie-Blomfield revisits Susan Sontag's production of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo, thirty years on.
'Caret', by Adam Mars-Jones
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This episode in our history of the great essays and great essayists is about Susan Sontag’s ‘Against Interpretation’ (1963). What was interpretation and why was Sontag so against it? David explores how an argument about art, criticism and the avant-garde can be applied to contemporary politics and can even explain the monstrous appeal of Donald Trump.
Sontag in the LRB:
Terry Castle on Sontag and friendship
‘At its best, our relationship was rather like the one between Dame Edna and her feeble sidekick Madge – or possibly Stalin and Malenkov.’
James Wolcott on Sontag and polemics
‘The upside of Sontag’s downside was that her ire was generated by the same power supply that electrified her battle for principles that others only espoused.’
Mark Grief on Sontag and identity
‘One of the most appealing things about Susan Sontag was that she didn’t ask to be liked. Sontag’s persona was not personal. It was superior.’
Joanna Biggs on Sontag and Paris
‘Paris let her say no to an academic life, but not to a life of ideas. The best thinking was done in cafes, or in bed, or at the movies, not in libraries.’
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O mercado de trabalho mundial já está sofrendo com processos de automação impulsionados por inteligência artificial. Neste episódio, investigamos os impactos da tecnologia no mercado de trabalho e falamos sobre os reflexos disso na sociedade como um tudo.
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Bullshit Jobs: A teoria (link para compra)
Icebergs à Deriva: o Trabalho nas Plataformas Digitais (link para compra)
Entrevistados do episódio
Sociólogo especialista em relações do trabalho, professor e pesquisador da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
Professor, administrador de empresas, pesquisador da Unicamp, investigou o trabalho dos entregadores por aplicativos
Ficha técnica do episódio
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.
In the last of our summer round-ups, Gwendoline Riley stalks the streets of London in the company of Michael Bracewell; and Ruth Scurron a final work by the indomitable Janet Malcolm.
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This week David discusses James Baldwin’s ‘Notes of a Native Son’ (1955), an essay that combines autobiography with a searing indictment of America’s racial politics. At its heart it tells the story of Baldwin’s relationship with his father, but it is also about fear, cruelty, violence and the terrible compromises of a country at war. What happens when North and South collide?
More on Baldwin from the LRB:
Michael Wood on Baldwin and power
‘James Baldwin’s thinking recalls Virginia Woolf’s view of the way that women have been used as mirrors by men.’
Colm Toibin on reading Baldwin
‘James Baldwin’s legacy is both powerful and fluid, allowing it to fit whatever category each reader requires, allowing it to influence each reader in a way that tells us as much about the reader as it does about Baldwin.’
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Autoras de livros voltados para quem quer aprimorar a escrita literária, a autora premiada Noemi Jaffe e a editora Vanessa Ferrari conversam sobre os princípios que regem a elaboração de um bom texto, a necessidade de sempre reescrever e de perceber o sentido de nossas palavras. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
In this week's round-up, we talk to Mary C Flannery about the continuing attraction of the irrepressible Wife of Bath; and mystery writer Nicola Upson on the unconventional life and unforgettable work of Josephine Tey.
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This week’s episode in our series on the great essays and great essayists is about Simone Weil’s ‘Human Personality’ (1943). Written shortly before her death aged just 34, it is an uncompromising repudiation of the building blocks of modern life: democracy, rights, personal identity, scientific progress – all these are rejected. What does Weil have to put in their place? The answer is radical and surprising.
Read ‘Human Personality’ here
For more on Weil from the LRB archive:
‘If we take Weil as seriously as she took herself, our nice lives will fall apart.’
Alan Bennett on Kafka and Weil
‘Many parents, one imagines, would echo the words of Madame Weil, the mother of Simone Weil, a child every bit as trying as Kafka must have been. Questioned about her pride in the posthumous fame of her ascetic daughter, Madame Weil said: “Oh! How much I would have preferred her to be happy.”’
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O Brasil não tem dados sobre o número de crianças que são devolvidas ao sistema após serem formalmente adotadas. Mas isso acontece. E quando acontece, gera traumas profundos nas crianças e adolescentes.
Além disso, para a Justiça brasileira, não existe diferença entre filhos adotivos e filhos biológicos. Portanto, nos casos em que pais devolvem crianças adotadas após o processo de adoção, esses pais podem sofrer consequências judiciais.
Eles podem ter de pagar pensão alimentícia além de reparação por danos morais, por exemplo.
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Adotei posso devolver (link para compra)
Abandono de filhos adotivos (link para compra)
Entrevistados do episódio
Autora do livro “Adotei, posso devolver?”
Advogado especialista no direito de crianças e adolescentes, coautor do livro Abandono de filhos adotivos e titular do perfil de Instagram Direito da Criança em Pauta.
Anna Christina Cardoso de Mello
Psicóloga forense, especialista em questões relacionadas a crianças e adolescentes, autora do livro “O jovem e seus direitos”.
Ficha técnica do episódio
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.
In the second of our summer round-ups, we revisit Richard Smyth discussing the life and the work of the naturalist Ronald Blythe; and Lucasta Miller on an extraordinary collection of commonplace books.
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This week David discusses George Orwell’s ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ (1941), his great wartime essay about what it does – and doesn’t – mean to be English. How did the English manage to resist fascism? How are the English going to defeat fascism? These were two different questions with two very different answers: hypocrisy and socialism. David takes the story from there to Brexit and back again.
For more on Orwell from the LRB:
Samuel Hynes on Orwell and politics
‘He was not, in fact, really a political thinker at all: he had no ideology, he proposed no plan of political action, and he was never able to relate himself comfortably to any political party.’
Julian Symons on Orwell and fame
‘If George Orwell had died in 1939 he would be recorded in literary histories of the period as an interesting maverick who wrote some not very successful novels.’
Terry Eagleton on Orwell and experience
‘Orwell detested those, mostly on the left, who theorised about situations without having experienced them, a common empiricist prejudice. There is no need to have your legs chopped off to sympathise with the legless.’
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