This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Michael Caines are joined by the critic and literary scholar Marjorie Perloff to discuss an encyclopedic work that sets out to tackle ‘Art and thought in the Cold War’, from Jean-Paul Sartre to Elvis Presley; the English professor and literary critic Rohan Maitzen explores the meticulously observed world of Olivia Manning’s Balkan novels; plus, the unhappy story of a youthful romance between Eric Arthur Blair and Jacintha Buddicom, played out in poetry
‘The Free World: Art and thought in the Cold War’ by Louis Menand
‘The Balkan Trilogy’ by Olivia Manning
‘“Dracula’s Daughter”: The rediscovery of a love poem for George Orwell’, by Eileen M. Hunt, and ‘Annotating George Orwell’, by D. J. Taylor – both in this week’s TLS: the-tls.co.uk
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How to be alone
Townies and gownies
‘How does it smell?’
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‘It’s not him, it’s us’
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‘A very peculiar telegram’
The kangaroo curve
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