This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by the writer and critic Mary Norris to discuss the phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood – surely her kind of success requires a method? A new collection of essays and talks sheds some light; Sujit Sivasundaram, the author of ‘Waves Across the South: A new history of revolution and empire’, considers a work of non-fiction by the novelist Amitav Ghosh which paints a compelling picture of how the trade in nutmeg prefigured today’s environmental crisis
‘Burning Questions: Essays and occasional pieces 2004–2021’ by Margaret Atwood
‘The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a planet in crisis’ by Amitav Ghosh
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How Macron went wrong
‘American Standard’, a new poem by Paul Muldoon
Everything points north
Reddit's new religions
Egos and experiments
Finer points of murder
Icons familiar and unfamiliar
Mary Beard's 'Introduction to the Odyssey' – a bonus episode
Highlights from 2018 – a bonus episode
Arts of the Year 2018
Ode to the orca
Who on earth was William Gilbert?
Our problem with cows
The best books of 2018
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WW1: Remembering / forgetting
Remembering Peterloo
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