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This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Colin Grant, the author of Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush generation, to discuss Small Axe, a series of films by Steve McQueen that centres on Black British life between the 1960s and 80s; and the author and musician Wesley Stace tells the story of the “real” James Bond, a celebrated ornithologist whose "dull" name was poached by Ian Fleming.
Plus, the TLS's Fiction editor Toby Lichtig talks to Douglas Stuart, the winner of this year’s Booker Prize for fiction
Small Axe, BBC One, BBC iPlayer
Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart
The Real James Bond: A true story of identity theft, avian intrigue and Ian Fleming, by Jim Wright
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Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Mark Glanville to mark the centenary of the birth of Paul Celan, probably the most important post-war German-language poet, by revisiting the early poems in light of his later transformation; and Margaret Drabble considers the literature of urban walking, via the fiction of G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells and other metropolitan ramblers.
Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The collected earlier poetry: A bilingual edition, translated by Pierre Joris
Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous prose, translated by Pierre Joris
Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan, by Jean Daive, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
The Walker: On finding and losing yourself in the modern city, by Matthew Beaumont
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Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by two TLS editors, David Horspool and Toby Lichtig, to discuss books that have sustained and stimulated over the past twelve months, as selected by sixty-five writers from around the world; and we discuss the controversy surrounding a long-awaited statue of – or "for" – Mary Wollstonecraft.
Read the TLS's Books of the Year feature here [https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/books-of-the-year-2020/]
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As Remembrance Day approaches, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Éadaoín Lynch to remember fully and truthfully the relationship between the poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon; and the TLS's sports editor David Horspool talks us through a couple of books on professional game playing, including a football memoir of obsession and crucial omissions by Arsène Wenger.
My Life in Red and White by Arsène Wenger
This Sporting Life: Sport and liberty in England, 1760–1960 by Robert Colls
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Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Lucy Scholes to revisit the work of the master of terror Shirley Jackson and review the new film Shirley (“about as far from a traditional biopic as you can get”); and Jane Darcy grapples with the neither quite Romantic nor quite Victorian Thomas De Quincey, whose life-writing paved the way for the autobiografiction to come
Shirley, directed by Josephine Decker (various cinemas / Hulu)
Thomas De Quincey: Selected writings, edited by Robert Morrison
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In a special bonus podcast we bring you an episode of Stories of our times that we think you might enjoy.
The Times's chief music critic, Richard Morrison muses over whether a combination of the coronavirus, environmental concerns and the MeToo movement will be the end of the 'maestro' - the classical music conductor - as we know it.
Guest: Richard Morrison, Times chief culture critic and music writer.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
Clips used: Metropolitan Opera, Aurora Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, The Hendon Band YouTube Channel, ABC News, Washington Post, NBC News.
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The critic and novelist Elizabeth Lowry joins Thea Lenarduzzi and Toby Lichtig to discuss the Italian Baroque master Artemisia Gentileschi, the subject of a major exhibition at the National Gallery in London, a painter whose Life is as dramatic and moving as her art; and Toby reviews new fiction steeped in dread, paranoia and failure, including a short work by Don DeLillo and the debut novel from the Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman
Artemisia – National Gallery, London, until January 24, 2021
The Silence by Don DeLillo
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
Reality: And other stories by John Lanchester
Why Visit America by Matthew Baker
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From a ballet stream to Homer's wine-dark sea. Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the historian and critic Judith Flanders to review the return of dance with new offerings from the Akram Khan Company and the Royal Ballet, and the novelist and poet Will Eaves returns to the Odyssey to explore the nature of memory.
Back on Stage – The Royal Ballet, available online until November 8th
The Silent Burn Project – Akram Khan Company
Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer – Barbican, until January 2021, then at the V&A Dundee
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From a carvery lunch in Howards End to emotional Eurocrats. Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Norma Clarke to discuss the role in literary creation of food and its increasingly fraught means of production, and Russell Williams reports on the bookshops of Paris during lockdown and reviews the new novel by a totemic figure in French literature, Jean-Philippe Toussaint.
The Literature of Food: An introduction from 1830 to present by Nicola Humble
Farm to Form: Modernist literature and ecologies of food in the British Empire by Jessica Martell
Read My Plate: The literature of food by Deborah R. Geis
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food, edited by J. Michelle Coghlan
Les Émotions by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
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From Ovid to the "Black Spartacus". Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the TLS's classics editor Mary Beard to pick apart the story of "seduction", ancient and modern, the poet Fiona Benson reads her latest work, and the TLS's history editor David Horspool explores two accounts of America's domestic slave trade and a new biography of Toussaint Louverture.
Strange Antics: A history of seduction by Clement Knox
Williams’ Gang: A notorious slave trader and his cargo of Black convicts by Jeff Forret
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A true story of slavery and restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel
Black Spartacus: The epic life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
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Toby Lichtig talks us through this year's Booker shortlisted novels, plus a couple of others, and Lucy Dallas reports on the French scene (where real life and fiction blur...); finally, we explore the situation in Israel and Palestine from three rather different perspectives.
An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defence Forces made a nation by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner
The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine campus debate by Kenneth S. Stern
The new peace? – Israel’s unexpected ray of light by Ari Shavit – www.the-TLS.co.uk
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Throughout August, we are revisiting our books roundups from previous years, and today we’re returning to last year’s suggestions. In 2019, our contributor Diana Darke said in the paper: "A lot of things need saving this summer – tangible things like bees, Notre-Dame, water … and intangible things like democracy, humanitarian ideals, community". Among the many subjects under discussion here are Oulipo, impeachment, and climate change.
We’ll be back with new weekly episodes from September 10th. Until then, head to the website – the-tls.co.uk – to keep up with the weekly magazine.
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Gabrielle Walker talks us through three unhelpful attitudes to global warming, as exemplified in the Michael Moore-produced film Planet of the Humans; Sudhir Hazareesingh discusses the complex relationship between charisma and celebrity in the age of Revolution (spoiler: it helps to have a horse)
Planet of the Humans - YouTube
Men on Horseback by David Bell
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What style of life did an ancient Roman emperor lead? How did he actually spend his time? Mary Beard fills us in; Frances Wilson on literary couples (and their pet names) and what they can, and can’t, tell us about marriage; Mika Ross-Southall on how gentrification works and who it works for
The Emperor in the Roman World by Fergus Millar
Literary Couples and 20th-Century Life Writing: Narrative and intimacy by Janine Utell
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian marriages by Phyllis Rose
Newcomers: Gentrification and its discontents by Matthew L. Schuerman
Us Versus Them: Race, crime, and gentrification in Chicago neighborhoods by Jan Doering
The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change, edited by Lisa Berglund and Siobhan Gregory
Alpha City: How London was captured by the super-rich, by Rowland Atkinson
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