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)
Summer Breeze
Revolutionary Roads
Boys And Their Toys
Paradise Lost and Particles Found
Making Waves: An Oceanic Austen And A Modern Orwell
From Mountain Passes To Streets Paved With Gold
Lazing On A Sunny Afternoon
Kidneys, Plums and Free Love
The TLS podcast at the Hay Festival
The Ebb and Flow of Power
Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité
Mementoes and Mayhem
Free-thinking Dinners in the Age of Revolutions
The Shape Of Things To Come
The Birds and the Bees, and Books Made of Cheese
Lives, Interrupted
Life Lessons and Making Sporting History
Early Days And Their Long Shadows
Boundaries Real and Imagined
Visions of Violence
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