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
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'
The Jam's literary credentials
Anthony Burgess at 100
Writing The Russian Revolution
Cowgirls, Hockney, and how to write a bestseller
The age of mass incarceration
March on
Reboots and reputations
Bad sex, 'the Malala effect', layers of place
Chilling, glitzy and dark
The many faces of King’s Cross
A monster success
Create your
podcast in
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It is Free
Ghostlore of Hawaii: Paranormal Paradise
That Tracks Podcast With Tim and Nick
The Jeff Does Vegas Podcast
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL