A Treasure on Your Shelf, Waiting
This week we hear about the pursuit of the perfect library, and celebrate the brilliance of crime writer Josephine Tey. Irina Dumitrescu on the bibliophile’s life‘The Franchise Affair’, ‘To Love and B...
23 Feb 202352min
Into The Woods
Peter Godfrey-Smith on two books about living like a deer and learning from the birds.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/deer-man-geoffroy-delorme-the-parrot-in-the-mirror-antone-martinho-truswell-boo...
19 Feb 202319min
Dogs Days in the Writer’s Life
This week, we examine the highs and very many lows of the writing life. Tom Seymour Evans explores a disquieting biography of crime writer James Ellroy, and Stephen Marche shines a light into the abys...
16 Feb 202352min
A Town Called Sue
In an extract from Lawcraft, published by TLS Books last month, Geoffrey Robertson explains how Russian oligarchs use British courts to close down investigative journalism.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/ar...
12 Feb 202331min
State Secrets and Private Passions
This week, Richard Norton-Taylor braves the terrifying world of cyberattacks and their brutal cost; and Lucasta Miller on an intriguing collection of 19th-century commonplace books.'Pegasus: The Story...
9 Feb 202349min
Big Tech Is Reading Your Mind
N. J. Enfield considers how software engineers became social engineers in our democracies.https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/freedom-to-think-susie-alegre-the-digital-republic-jamie-susskind-book-revi...
5 Feb 202315min
All Those Old Familiar Places
This week, Elizabeth Dearnley hunts for the hags, fairies and wandering women of the pagan past; and Ruth Scurr on a thrilling final book from the celebrated journalist Janet Malcolm.‘Queens of the Wi...
2 Feb 202351min
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 Jan 202315min
