Catherine Taylor on bookish goings on in the north of England, from her family’s bookshop in Sheffield to the Northern Fiction Alliance of small presses; Diarmaid Ferriter considers the fraught matter of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland; Fríða Ísberg
on the spectre of war in Icelandic film and fiction
Books
The Border: The legacy of a century of Anglo-Irish politics by Diarmaid Ferriter
Hotel Silence (Ör) by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Woman at War, directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
Section 6 of “American Standard”, a new poem by Paul Muldoon published in this week’s TLS; read by Lisa Dwan (full recording available as a separate podcast episode)
Don't sweat it
Indexes, Newsletters, Potatoes, Gold!
TLS Summer Library: Part IV
TLS Summer Library: Part III
The Guidance of Brains
TLS Summer Library: Part II
TLS Summer Library: Part I
Turning poetry into profit with Alighieri Jewellery's Rosh Mahtani
Paternal Effects
A Genius of Cancer and a Queen of Bohemia
The Miraculous Mundane
Private Profits, Public Cost
The movie we want it to be
Insiders, outsiders and insider-outsiders
No Ideas, But in Things
Proust's Way
Strange Worlds of Their Own
Robots Working, Humans Reading
Mozart the Happy Harlequin and Lost British Labourism
A Bengali Polymath and an ‘Accidental Modernist’
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The Modern West
Voices of Misery Podcast
House of Whimsical Terror
Dairyland Frights
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Timcast IRL