This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Tom Seymour Evans to head for the beaches of Fire Island, and the TLS’s French editor Russell Williams surveys the country’s philosophical and political landscape, past and present.
‘Fire Island: Love, loss and liberation in an American paradise’ by Jack Parlett
’The French Mind: 400 years of romance, revolution and renewal’ by Peter Watson
‘France: An adventure history’ by Graham Robb
Produced by Sophia Franklin
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‘It’s not him, it’s us’
Introducing: Stories of our times
‘A very peculiar telegram’
The kangaroo curve
Tweets, memes and the smell of masculine
Tales of a century
Passion projects
Absolutely worth the hype
The Mirror & the Light – an extract from Hilary Mantel's new novel
West Side Storyless
Vanilla sex in Pompeii
Can't go on. Go on.
Anne Enright – a reading from Actress
Daniel Kehlmann, an interview
Bringing Tolstoy down
Carrier bag or stick?
Byron's oddness
Huge stars in a minor key
Bonus episode: Five women, one radical address
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