Anna Katharina Schaffner on the cultural history of fat and fat phobia; the TLS's travel editor Catharine Morris on why Paris will always be disappointing, the solitude of open spaces, and the problem with "Victor" the archetypal travel writer; an extract from the 2019 Man Booker International prize-winning Celestial Bodies by Jokha al-Harthi, read by the novel's translator Marilyn Booth
Books
Fat: A cultural history of the stuff of life by Christopher E. Forth
The Truth About Fat by Anthony Warner
Fearing the Black Body: The racial origins of fat phobia by Sabrina Strings
We’ll Never Have Paris, edited by Andrew Gallix
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
Heida: A shepherd at the edge of the world by Steinunn Sigurðardóttir and Heiða Ásgeirsdóttír, translated by Philip Roughton
Where the Hornbeam Grows: A journey in search of a garden by Beth Lynch
The Cambridge History of Travel Writing, edited by Nandini Das and Tim Youngs
Celestial Bodies by Jokha al-Harthi, translated by Marilyn Booth
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Thomas Cromwell
Mexico's great disgrace
Henry James in LA
On booze and art
Philip Larkin, beyond the grave
Too smart for our own good
Same old gags
Turn on, tune in, drop out?
Mind and memory
Emily Brontë's wuthering wilds
Women, in and out of control
Ode to Lee Child – a bonus episode
Summer Books 2018
Notes on 50 years of the Man Booker Prize
An interview with Tim Winton – a bonus episode
The wildness of Muriel Spark
Russia's blood games
Changing your mind and opening the doors
Rules of law
Jesmyn Ward’s lyrical fiction - a bonus episode
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