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
The most expensive mystery of all
How to be modern: conspiracy theory, free will and the avant-garde
‘We don’t know what he has, we don’t know what he’s done with it’
Nature for sale
Unromancing the Romantics
Loving Iris Murdoch
Who reads John Updike?
Talk to the hands
Summer Books 2019
Russian greats and fictional eats
Ethical economics
Weighty matters
Celestial Bodies – winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize for fiction
Victoria at 200
Journey to the centre of the earth
To infinities – and beyond
The life-writing issue
Ian McEwan – an interview
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