This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by David Gallagher to discuss two new books about Jorge Luis Borges – one a collection of essays and remembrances by the great Latin American writer Mario Vargas Llosa, the other a more curious offering by the American writer and critic Jay Parini; David Baddiel on the insidious, pervasive, exclusionary nature of ‘progressive’ antisemitism; Alice Wadsworth and Lucy Dallas on food podcasts and the French comedy-drama Call My Agent!
Medio siglo con Borges, by Mario Vargas Llosa (published in Spain by Alfaguara)
Borges and Me: An encounter, by Jay Parini
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
'The Sporkful' and 'Off Menu' available on podcast platforms
Call My Agent!, Netflix
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Highlights from 2017
Arts of the Year 2017
Darwin: good, bad, ugly
Critical women
Dancing with Anthony Powell
BONUS: Geoff Dyer on Geoff Dyer
Can Utopia survive 2017?
The best books of 2017
A woman's 'Odyssey'
A brand-new London theatre
Kathy Acker's guts
Matthew Arnold's good-bad poetry
Valeria Luiselli on the US immigration crisis
Heavy with odours
Authors of injustice
Good, bad and loud feminist writing
Free Speech vs Safe Space: the Great Campus Divide
Samuel Beckett's turtle-neck, etc
Matters poetical
Peter Brook at work
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