Ruth Scurr on the master biographer Robert A. Caro, whose subjects include Robert Moses, Lyndon B. Johnson and, now, himself; Dmitri Levitin talks us through Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, an eccentric and often inaccurate guide to early thinkers; Why bother with literary criticism? Whither this generation's Lionel Trilling? Michael LaPointe joins us to discuss
Working: Researching, interviewing, writing by Robert A. Caro
American Audacity: In defense of literary daring by William Giraldi
Hater: On the virtues of utter disagreeability by John Semley
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius, translated by Pamela Mensch
A Treasure on Your Shelf, Waiting
Into The Woods
Dogs Days in the Writer’s Life
A Town Called Sue
State Secrets and Private Passions
Big Tech Is Reading Your Mind
All Those Old Familiar Places
The Gene Genie
Telling It Like It Is
Stories That Simply Unfold
Rattling The Handle On Life
A Sea-Brooding Poet
Radical Barbie
Festive Shadows and Feasts of Panackelty
Simon McBurney of Complicité - "We've always been interested in the idea of connection"
The Power of Connections
The Road To St Helena
Female Perspectives Take Centre Stage
His Biggest Role
Roman Coins And Radical Rosa Bonheur
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Modern West
Voices of Misery Podcast
House of Whimsical Terror
Just Dumb Enough Podcast
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL