Boyd Tonkin states the case – never overstated – for literature in translation, and reviews a commendable recent effort "to grasp, and to survey, the entire planet of words"; Andrew Scull considers the travails of social psychology and the egos and experiments that professed to tell us something essential about human nature by setting fire to forests or electrocuting dogs...
Books
Found in Translation: 100 of the finest short stories ever translated, edited by Frank Wynne
The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment by Gina Perry
The Hope Circuit: A psychologist’s journey from helplessness to optimism by Martin Seligman
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
The world's most mysterious manuscript
Pop science and Punjabi epics
Peak bullshit
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Maverick Show with Matt Bowles
Now You Know One Autistic! Podcast
Dairyland Frights
The Passionistas Project Podcast
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL