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
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
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