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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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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