The comedian and writer Helen Lederer joins us to discuss gender and comedy and the new Comedy Women In Print Prize; Lucy Dallas considers a clutch of novels in which animals might offer a little respite from human company; the TLS’s philosophy editor Tim Cranes guides us through the riches of this week’s philosophy issue, including how the advent of biological immortality might augur “the greatest inequality experienced in all human history” and what happened when Michel Foucault took LSD in Death Valley
To Leave with the Reindeer by Olivia Rosenthal, translated by Sophie Lewis
Animalia by Jean-Baptiste del Amo, translated by Frank Wynne
The Animal Gazer by Edgardo Franzosini, translated by Michael F. Moore
“The last mortals: why we are especially unfortunate to die, when our near-descendants could be immortal", by Regini Rini – see this week’s TLS (in print and online)
Foucault in California: A true story, wherein the great French philosopher drops acid in the Valley of Death by Simeon Wade
Climate change, from 'doomism' to optimism
Life as a Roman emperor
How the West was written
Romance versus realism
The Pet Shop Boys paradox
Bernardine Evaristo wins again
Holiday in the living room
Don’t forget Edward Earl Johnson
Finding art in lockdown
Slave driver, the table is turn
How to be alone
Townies and gownies
‘How does it smell?’
Grotesquely good
Easy as ABC?
Godzilla, the plague, etc
‘It’s not him, it’s us’
Introducing: Stories of our times
‘A very peculiar telegram’
The kangaroo curve
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