Catherine Taylor on bookish goings on in the north of England, from her family’s bookshop in Sheffield to the Northern Fiction Alliance of small presses; Diarmaid Ferriter considers the fraught matter of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland; Fríða Ísberg
on the spectre of war in Icelandic film and fiction
Books
The Border: The legacy of a century of Anglo-Irish politics by Diarmaid Ferriter
Hotel Silence (Ör) by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Woman at War, directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
Section 6 of “American Standard”, a new poem by Paul Muldoon published in this week’s TLS; read by Lisa Dwan (full recording available as a separate podcast episode)
Terrifyingly True (or Not)
Classical music conductors: Overpaid, oversexed and over the hill?
Out Caravaggio-ing Caravaggio
Dancing on Air
Milk as Metaphor
Seduction and Uprisings
Murder at the Opera
Books! Books! Books!
Sex and the City of Ladies
The TLS, rewind #4
The TLS, rewind #3
The TLS, rewind #2
The TLS, rewind #1
Climate change, from 'doomism' to optimism
Life as a Roman emperor
How the West was written
Romance versus realism
The Pet Shop Boys paradox
Bernardine Evaristo wins again
Holiday in the living room
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