This week, Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark are joined by Tom Seymour Evans to head for the beaches of Fire Island, and the TLS’s French editor Russell Williams surveys the country’s philosophical and political landscape, past and present.
‘Fire Island: Love, loss and liberation in an American paradise’ by Jack Parlett
’The French Mind: 400 years of romance, revolution and renewal’ by Peter Watson
‘France: An adventure history’ by Graham Robb
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‘But Where’s the Poetry?!’
D. H. Lawrence in Flames
Jane Austen and Abolition
Angela Thirkell’s Relentless Self-Belief
Pirandello’s Controlled Chaos
Violence Upon the Roads
Underground and on the Run
Getting Shakespeare’s Measure
Philip Roth, For Better, For Worse, Forever?
Dreams of America
Myth-busting, awkwardness, pure Marvellousness
Vivian Gornick’s Time
Avoidance and absurdity
Ishiguro’s AI and Grendel’s Mother
Nostalgia, Outsiders and "Rubber Tramps"
Weapons, Grouse and Red Herrings
Tentatively Pressing
The Barbara Comyns revival
BONUS: David Baddiel - Jews Don't Count
Borges - Encounters and "Encounters"
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