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
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
From book to box and beyond
Overrated/Underrated
Brexit, bubbles, and the best arts of 2016
God, sex and the arts / science divide
Defiance, good death and Mexico
Controlled violence
Books of the Year
Lionel Shriver: "Terror as recreation"
The life in the work
Against nature
Violence and poetry
Halloween story special
Shades of censorship
Ali Smith on Autumn
Life, writing and life-writing
Create your
podcast in
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It is Free
The Covert Narcissism Podcast
Greece Travel Secrets Podcast
That Park Life: a Disney World Podcast
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL