The Gene Genie
Nessa Carey explores how recent scientific breakthroughs allow experimentation with the DNA of all living species.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-genetic-age-matthew-cobb-book-review-nessa-care...
29 Tammi 202315min
Telling It Like It Is
Richard Smyth remembers the equanimity and attentiveness of Ronald Blythe; and Mary Flannery on the enduring appeal of Alison, the Wife of Bath.‘Next to Nature: A Lifetime in the English Countryside’ ...
26 Tammi 202350min
Stories That Simply Unfold
Kirsty Gunn considers Katherine Mansfield’s place in the literary canon.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/all-sorts-of-lives-katherine-mansfield-claire-harman-book-review-kirsty-gunn/ Hosted on Acast...
22 Tammi 202317min
Rattling The Handle On Life
This week, Gabriel Roberts explores the past, present and - we very much hope - the future of bioabundance in animal species; and novelist Gwendoline Riley takes us into the affecting and brutally fun...
19 Tammi 202352min
A Sea-Brooding Poet
Christy Edwall reflects on a meditations on Keats’s poems, and a new account of his last days.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/a-greeting-of-the-spirit-susan-wolfson-written-in-water-alessandro-gall...
16 Tammi 202316min
Radical Barbie
Olivia Laing secrets and lies in the life and work of Kathy Acker.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/eat-your-mind-kathy-acker-jason-mcbride-book-review-olivia-laing/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...
9 Tammi 202325min
Festive Shadows and Feasts of Panackelty
This week, Lucy Lethbridge explains what a curate's eye is, and how ideas of British cooking range from Aga fantasies to bacon butties; and J. S. Barnes takes us to the dark side of the festive season...
22 Joulu 202243min
Simon McBurney of Complicité - "We've always been interested in the idea of connection"
Simon McBurney, the artistic director of the endlessly innovative and influential Complicité theatre company, talks to Lucy Dallas about two of their major new projects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
18 Joulu 202239min
