This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the critic Nelly Kaprièlian and the TLS’s French editor Russell Williams to discuss ‘Anéantir’, the latest novel by France’s best-known and maybe most controversial writer, Michel Houellebecq; the TLS’s Toby Lichtig talks us through a new memoir by the ‘pre-eminent author of British Jewish novels’, Howard Jacobson, and we consider a masterclass in sympathy from Anne Tyler, a tale of revenge by Japan’s ‘Queen of mysteries’, and a wartime reckoning in Finland.
‘Anéantir’ by Michel Houellebecq
‘Mother’s Boy: A writer’s beginnings’ by Howard Jacobson
‘French Braid’ by Anne Tyler
‘Lady Joker: Volume one’ by Kaoru Takamura, translated by Marie Iida and Allison Markin Powell
‘Land of Snow & Ashes’ by Petra Rautiainen, translated by David Hackston
Produced by Sophia Franklin
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Zadie Smith, in conversation
Half glitzy, half dowdy
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: the inaugural Gabriel García Márquez lecture
Narratives of sexual assault
How Macron went wrong
‘American Standard’, a new poem by Paul Muldoon
Everything points north
Reddit's new religions
Egos and experiments
Finer points of murder
Icons familiar and unfamiliar
Mary Beard's 'Introduction to the Odyssey' – a bonus episode
Highlights from 2018 – a bonus episode
Arts of the Year 2018
Ode to the orca
Who on earth was William Gilbert?
Our problem with cows
The best books of 2018
Is it accurate to call Donald Trump a fascist?
WW1: Remembering / forgetting
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Dairyland Frights
The Passionistas Project Podcast
Just Dumb Enough Podcast
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL