This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the TLS's Classics editor Mary Beard, who, via an old exam paper, emphasizes the importance of teaching Classics in context (Q1: "Dryads, Hyads, Naiads, Oreads, Pleiads … Does 'Classical influence' in modern poetry always come down to snobbery and elitism?”); Zachary Leader reports on the latest offerings from the Joyce Industry; and Jane O'Grady considers how the Enlightenment undid itself.
James Joyce and the Matter Of Paris, by Catherine Flynn
James Joyce and the Jesuits, by Michael Mayo
Panepiphanal World: James Joyce’s epiphanies, by Sangam Macduff
The Enlightenment: The pursuit of happiness 1680–1790, by Ritchie Robertson
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Weighty matters
Celestial Bodies – winner of the 2019 Man Booker International prize for fiction
Victoria at 200
Knowing laughter
Journey to the centre of the earth
To infinities – and beyond
The life-writing issue
Ian McEwan – an interview
As we like it
Youth injustice system
Whitechapel and Weimar
A deep history of Europe
Forgotten, not gone
Dave Eggers: The violations start with us
O, the Edward Gorey of it all
A nose is a nose is a nose…
Unsilenced voices
Zadie Smith, in conversation
Half glitzy, half dowdy
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: the inaugural Gabriel García Márquez lecture
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