Ruth Scurr on the master biographer Robert A. Caro, whose subjects include Robert Moses, Lyndon B. Johnson and, now, himself; Dmitri Levitin talks us through Diogenes Laertius' Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, an eccentric and often inaccurate guide to early thinkers; Why bother with literary criticism? Whither this generation's Lionel Trilling? Michael LaPointe joins us to discuss
Working: Researching, interviewing, writing by Robert A. Caro
American Audacity: In defense of literary daring by William Giraldi
Hater: On the virtues of utter disagreeability by John Semley
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius, translated by Pamela Mensch
Remembering Peterloo
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Ever-enigmatic Leonardo da Vinci
An Odyssey for everyone
Radical Cheltenham and a poem from Paul Muldoon
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Thomas Cromwell
Mexico's great disgrace
Henry James in LA
On booze and art
Philip Larkin, beyond the grave
Too smart for our own good
Same old gags
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Mind and memory
Emily Brontë's wuthering wilds
Women, in and out of control
Ode to Lee Child – a bonus episode
Summer Books 2018
Notes on 50 years of the Man Booker Prize
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