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Books, Interviews, Philosophy, Podcasts, Politics

Top Podcast Interviews: ‘Confronting Leviathan’ Author David Runciman

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🐋NEW PODCAST🐋
This week Adam Biles welcomes David Runciman, host of the brilliant @TPpodcast_, to discuss CONFRONTING LEVIATHAN his compelling and erudite history of ideas. Click here – https://t.co/GfOMEcV9Qw – or search "Shakespeare and Company" wherever you listen. pic.twitter.com/ibEUUBvcDW
— Shakespeare&Company (@Shakespeare_Co) October 21, 2021

Literature, Magazines, Previews, Stories

Previews: Times Literary Supplement – October 22

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This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Clare Saxby on Barbara Hepworth; @ae_stallings visits Euboea; @OldFortunatus on The Tragedy of Macbeth; Edmund Gordon on Tom McCarthy; @ImogenRW on children’s graphic novels – and more pic.twitter.com/JiDoAqyCWr
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) October 20, 2021

Books, Literature, Magazines, Previews, Reviews

Cover Preview: London Review Of Books – OCT 21

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Our new issue is now online, feat. Stephen Sedley on the criminalisation on assisted dying, @padrigmcg on Uwe Johnson in Sheerness, @JoannaBiggs on Annie Ernaux, Owen Hatherley on Soviet cloudworlds, Emily Wilson on Aristophanes, & a cover by Naomi Frears: https://t.co/xaTOjYd3Vr pic.twitter.com/MkXSxSNH1L
— London Review of Books (@LRB) October 13, 2021

Books, Literature, Previews, Reviews

Previews: Times Literary Supplement – October 15

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This week’s TLS, featuring @FodenGiles on Abdulrazak Gurnah; @LucyScholes on Shirley Jackson’s letters; @_Poots_ on Stanley Tucci; @AlexClark3 on the final le Carré; @rwilliamsparis on the 2021 rentrée – and more pic.twitter.com/Jt8tSG6smc
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) October 13, 2021

Books, Reviews, Science

Science: “How Tropical Forests Shaped The World” – Book Review

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Previews: Times Literary Supplement – October 8

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This week’s @TheTLS, featuring Sophie Gee on Alexander Pope; Peter Parker on Forster’s Maurice at fifty; @swajcmanearle on generations; @violetiihudson on heiresses; Donald Macintyre on Starmer – and more pic.twitter.com/kaVAu9NniZ
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) October 6, 2021

Books, Psychology, Reviews, Uncategorized

Book Review: ‘Rationality’ By Steven Pinker (NY Times)

September 29, 2021 She Seeks Serene Leave a comment

Steven Pinker's new book seeks to "lay out rational arguments for rationality itself.” Our critic @jenszalai reviews. https://t.co/375r46GQBl
— New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) September 29, 2021

Books, Literature, Previews, Reviews

Cover Preview: London Review Of Books – OCT 7

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Our new issue is now online featuring @amiasrinivasan on bestiality, @rosalyster on Louisiana underwater, @adamshatz on Richard Wright, Colin Burrow on Christopher Ricks, @moonjets on Milman Parry, a poem by @ae_stallings and a cover by Alexander Gorlizki: https://t.co/xaTOjYd3Vr pic.twitter.com/5pZxNXgiwd
— London Review of Books (@LRB) September 29, 2021

Books, Literature, Previews, Reviews

Previews: Times Literary Supplement (TLS) – OCT 1

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This week’s @TheTLS, featuring @RozDineen on Rooney, Claire Lowdon on Knausgaard and Edmund Gordon on Franzen; @RoryStewartUK on Afghanistan; @en_khong on artists’ outfits; @StevenIsserlis on Bach; @BenWilko85 on de la Mare – and more pic.twitter.com/KSPkfERmlf
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) September 29, 2021