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
Robert Frost's aggression
'Who shall we kill today?'
What to read this summer: an almost-legendary TLS special edition
The summer of shrug
Embarrassing questions
Football and the modern Middle East
Is consciousness a thing?
How to get rid of your spouse
States of the nations
#1. If This Is A Man – a live reading of Primo Levi's memoir of Auschwitz
Rousseau and the me me me memoir
How comics got serious
Primo Levi speaks
Beers with James Baldwin
Poets, cannibals and philosophers
Not so still lives
Isherwood, from Weimar Berlin to Hollywood
A new French Revolution?
Fragments of the American Dream
George Saunders on 'Lincoln in the Bardo'
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The Passionistas Project Podcast
Just Dumb Enough Podcast
Voices of Misery Podcast
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL