This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Nick Groom, Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau, to discuss William Blake, who saw wonders everywhere (including a tree on Peckham Rye), and communicated them urgently in art and poetry – what does he have to tell us now?; the critic and writer Michael Kerrigan guides us through the ‘improbably enthralling mundanities’ of the Uruguayan novelist Mario Levrero; plus, a dazzling history of Sicily, the demise of local journalism, and ‘bald’ philosophy.
William Blake Vs the World by John Higgs
The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero, translated by Annie McDermott
Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The vanishing world of the local journalist by Roger Lytollis
Bald: 35 philosophical short cuts by Simon Critchley
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean history by Jamie Mackay
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