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
Elizabeth II in History
The Rise of Your Frenemy’s Sourdough
The Hour Of Our Death
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Our New Gilded Age
Women In Cages, Everywhere
In Which Summer’s Lease Runs Out
Earth Matters
Visionaries Revisited
Summer Breeze
Revolutionary Roads
Boys And Their Toys
Paradise Lost and Particles Found
Making Waves: An Oceanic Austen And A Modern Orwell
From Mountain Passes To Streets Paved With Gold
Lazing On A Sunny Afternoon
Kidneys, Plums and Free Love
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The Ebb and Flow of Power
Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité
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