Boyd Tonkin states the case – never overstated – for literature in translation, and reviews a commendable recent effort "to grasp, and to survey, the entire planet of words"; Andrew Scull considers the travails of social psychology and the egos and experiments that professed to tell us something essential about human nature by setting fire to forests or electrocuting dogs...
Books
Found in Translation: 100 of the finest short stories ever translated, edited by Frank Wynne
The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment by Gina Perry
The Hope Circuit: A psychologist’s journey from helplessness to optimism by Martin Seligman
‘How does it smell?’
Grotesquely good
Easy as ABC?
Godzilla, the plague, etc
‘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?
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Just Dumb Enough Podcast
Voices of Misery Podcast
House of Whimsical Terror
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL