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)
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
Don’t forget Edward Earl Johnson
Finding art in lockdown
Slave driver, the table is turn
How to be alone
Townies and gownies
‘How does it smell?’
Grotesquely good
Easy as ABC?
Godzilla, the plague, etc
‘It’s not him, it’s us’
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That Park Life: a Disney World Podcast
Ghostlore of Hawaii: Paranormal Paradise
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Timcast IRL