This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Gerri Kimber to discuss a bold new biography of D. H. Lawrence, 'the most judged writer of his age'; twenty-odd writers share their formative encounters with nature, including the novelists Maaza Mengiste and Ali Smith; plus, reviews of the television adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s 'The Pursuit of Love' and 'Harm', a new play about loneliness and social media addiction
Burning Man: The ascent of D. H. Lawrence, by Frances Wilson
'Sinister, sublime, exhausting, hungry – formative encounters with the natural world', see the-tls.co.uk
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, BBC iPlayer
'Harm' by Phoebe Eclair-Powell, the Bush Theatre, London
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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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