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
Carnival of Darkness
Give Me Your Heart
A Constant State of Foreignness
Best of 2021
Best of 2021
BONUS: Sarah Hall and Sarah Moss – an interview
This Is Magic
On not letting it be
George Orwell and his Roses and a History of Self-Improvement
Books of the Year 2021
The Mythic Town of Concord and the Magic of the Lighted Window
The Booker-winner and the Beatle
Wild Lives
Doom, Faith and Sabotage
Radical Turns
The Autumn Livres
E.M. Forster's Happy Solution
When the Flawed Succeed
Survival of the Wittiest
Sad and Twisted Stories
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It is Free
The Modern West
Just Dumb Enough Podcast
Voices of Misery Podcast
House of Whimsical Terror
Stuff You Should Know
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