Critic and novelist Margaret Drabble joins us to review the life and work of Muriel Spark, whose centenary we mark this year; Samuel Graydon discusses a new exhibition on J. R. R. Tolkien, including drawings and doodles, language trees and fan mail; the TLS's History editor David Horspool introduces a selection of new work on the medieval period
Works discussed
The Centenary Edition of the Novels of Muriel Spark, edited by Alan Taylor
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth, an exhibition at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with accompanying book by Catherine McIlwaine
‘Finding Henry – Why England’s most powerful medieval monarch should be better remembered’ by Claudia Gold, in this week’s TLS
Medieval Bodies: Life, death and art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
Sea of Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the medieval Islamic world by Christophe Picard, translated by Nicholas Elliott
The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 1: 1000–1350: Conquest and Transformation by Laura Ashe
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The Barbara Comyns revival
BONUS: David Baddiel - Jews Don't Count
Borges - Encounters and "Encounters"
Delicate Matters
Epiphanies and Kidneys
This is Pakistan
Jacques Tati’s Serious Gags
Stalin, little and large
Beethoven at 250
BONUS: 2020 Booker Prize Winner - Douglas Stuart
Neither Victims nor Perpetrators
Gagged with Ashes
Books of the Year 2020
You Have Fixed Me
Terrifyingly True (or Not)
Classical music conductors: Overpaid, oversexed and over the hill?
Out Caravaggio-ing Caravaggio
Dancing on Air
Milk as Metaphor
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